Field Trip

Parker's class took a field trip last week. With all the amazing places and kid friendly things to do in the Bay Area....guess what they did? Museum? Park? Noooooo. They went to Whole Foods. It was some kind of tie in to Earth Day, but basically it was a giant Whole Foods commercial. The one redeeming part of it was that they took the bus. Or I should say, they took the bus one direction. (On the way home the bus passed us all by so three moms went back to school to get the cars and went to pick everyone up. Good thing I normally have 3-4 carseats in my car at any given time.) Most of the kids had never been on a bus before so that was a novelty. Parker, of course, had been one one many times.

They had a tour guide at Whole Foods and she talked to us about locally grown food, colorful meals, different kinds of meats and cheeses (and then gave them string cheese to taste). They all got "goody bags" with all manner of branded Whole Foods stuff in them. Parker was bored most of the time. I don't shop at whole food often, but he has been there many times (once with his class last year). I kinda felt bad for him since he had to stand and behave for 45 minutes listening to organic propaganda. I wanted to buy him a twinkie that he could eat right then. But Whole Foods doesn't sell twinkies.







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