Pound Family Adventures: Field Trip Time

I'm starting a new series today called "I Think Something Was Lost In Translation" Part 1:

Usually I can tell what the English translation is supposed to be, but I'm not so sure here. I'm fairly certain it is OK to use this mirror if you have clothes on though. I definitely think something was lost in translation.
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Taylor's class went on a field trip to a zoo a couple weeks ago and I had the privilege of going along with them. Because teachers have to cover so much material each school year, field trips are usually very academic in nature (reading between the lines this means they are boring), but this field trip was pretty much just for fun...the way field trips should be. They didn't have to fill out any worksheets or answer any questions, we didn't have to find anything special or write a report when we got home, it was just a day to get out of the classroom and look at fun animals.

Getting to the zoo was a very unique experience. We took the subway...now just so you can get the full picture of what this was like-imagine about 50 students, 35 parents and 2 teachers all trying to stay together and not lose anyone on the subway--in a foreign country--in the second largest city in the world--in which English is not the predominant spoken language. That experience in itself totally made the field trip worth it. Thankfully the kids are older and for the most part able to stay with the group.

We all had to walk from the school to the subway stop. It was about a half mile walk.

Taylor's teacher trying to figure out who needs subway tickets and who already has one.

We all made it on the subway.

Taylor has some really nice girls in her class this year.

Since you have all probably been to a zoo and know what animals look like I won't bore you with a ton of animal pictures, just my favorites, but I will say this is one of the best zoos I have ever been to. The animals were the most active of any zoo we have visited. Their living spaces were big and very well maintained and the zoo was beautifully landscaped.

We could get so close to the animals...don't worry it was still a very safe distance.

This seal put on a great singing show for us. He just sang and sang and if we stopped paying attention or started to walk away he sang louder.

We took a picture with the singing seal.

The flowers were beautiful and there were so many of them.

These are kimchi pots stacked on top of each other. If you don't know what kimchi is you will have to either google it or wait till I write about it on here.

There were a few other Korean school groups at the zoo the same day we were.