What school trips did you love growing up?

[bab]

I'm trying to get ideas

[Jalapeñomel]

Planetarium, Zoo, Water park, Amusement park

And once we toured Pizza Hut or Dominos, and we got to make and eat our own pizzas. This was the best!

[thinkofthesoldiers]

All of them? LOL
Visiting a farm was fun.
Apple orchard.
Behind the scenes at McDonald's (always in March so we could get Shamrock shakes!).
Grocery store.
Museums.
Zoo.
Aquarium.
When we were older, we went to a baseball game as and end of the year thing.
Picnic in the park.
Visiting a national park and getting talked to by the rangers.

[cc]

In 6th grade, we went to the mall to learn about budgeting money or something like that.

Other trips I loved were to St. Augustine, Sea World, Disney (sang there for Chorus), and my ultimate favorite was the NYC/DC trip we took in 8th grade.

[Deleted]

Zoo, farm, Statue of Liberty, fishing

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Oh! There is a really cool and very old theatre in my hometown. We went to see an organist play, and before the show we were all shown around backstage/under the stage. It was really cool.

[emsumm]

Queen Mary and Spruce Goose
Tide Pools
Knott's Berry Farm
Wax Museum
Water Park
Performing Arts Center

[Deleted]

Going to an apple orchard - hayrides and seeing the trees and eating apple doughnuts!
the zoo
the grocery store

[underwaterrhymes]

These are all so awesome. I'm going to bookmark this page because I think they're fun family trips too.

I loved going to a local farm growing up because we got to make apple butter and homemade ice cream.

And I went on a school trip to NYC that was a lot of fun.

[lucky513]

I had fun at Catalina Island
local place here called Mesa we slept in Tepees

as for family trips we didnt really do them but I really liked when my we took my dad and siblings to the colorado river and stayed at Avi Indian reservation

[melindafelinda]

Symphony, plays, museums, aquarium

[lucky513]

the museum of tolerance really left an impression on me

[verycontrary247]

Disney World.
New York City.
Busch Gardens.
Colonial Williamsburg.
We also had a group from my chorus class that got to go see operas dress rehearsals at the local theater once a month.

[Deleted]

Our 5th grade "Graduation" trip was a behind the scenes tour of Three Rivers Stadium and then a Gateway Clipper boat tour on the rivers. In 6th grade, we had an overnight trip to Gettysburg, 7th grade was to DC, 8th was to NYC. We also went to the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History.

[bab]

Feb 27, 2013 21:37:53 GMT -5 RexManningDay said:

My favorite was the Vermont teddy bear factory. At the end, we got to go to this room where they kept all of the slightly disfigured bears and pick one out to the home. Fucking awesome.

Awww,  the island of misfit toys!

[Deleted]

Space Center Houston
The Museum of Natural Science
The Zoo

I remember we read 2001 A Space Odyssey before we went to Space Center so I was really into space travel and all that stuff. I always liked when we studied something, then went on a trip that pertained to it. I was such a nerd...

[UMaineTeach]

the living history historical settlement
- just realized in a post-9/11 world the kids in my hometown can't go anymore since all would need a passport to go to (well, come back from) Canada.

[ProfessorArtNerd]

We didn't go on an eighth grade trip, when I was in fifth grade a bus from the DC trip crashed. Womp womp.

We went to the Franklin Institute a lot. And the zoo.

[EmilieMadison]

Feb 27, 2013 22:12:25 GMT -5 @kizmet said:

Fort Snelling, science museum, water treatment plant (weird I know), a wolf sanctuary

Ha, I was reading all the other responses and thinking "Nope..nope...nope..." and got to yours and thought "Yes! I did those!" 
Did you go to Wolf Ridge for the overnight thing in Jr High? That was AWESOME! 
The water treatment plant in HS was the only time I was ever grateful that every gy in my entire grade all wore way too fucking much Drakkar Noir. No sewage smell for me! 

[Dusky]

One of the best field trips I ever had involved us going to one of the teacher's farm to learn about native plant species and dig up clay to donate to the art department. I know it sounds weird, but it was fun because it was so unusual.

Also on the list of neat trips:

The Aquarium
The Theater

[RoxMonster]

My favorite was going to Chicago to see a musical every year with our band. Our teacher basically let us loose in Chicago for a few hours; we just had to be at the theater on time for the performance. Our band director was also awesome.

Runner up was probably in 6th grade, going to a 3-day camp at a nature preserve. We played predator and prey, went on night hikes, got to stay overnight in bunks, etc.

Another fascinating one was going to a morgue my senior year for anatomy/physiology.

But I don't think there was a field trip I hated. Others included going to our state capitol, the zoo, aquarium, science museum, regular museum, seeing plays, etc.

[grover]

Springfield, IL in 5th grade- when we got back, everyone's favorite part when asked was dinner at Old Country Buffet as we raided the ice cream machine before eating anything else (except for one random girl who insisted on going to the salad bar first, then eating her main course before eating her ice cream last). Everything else at the time (senate, Lincoln's house, other museums) were all second best.

The only other field trips I really remember were our 5th grade overnight camp trip and then Six Flags in 8th and 11th grade. Oh, and a few Chicago day trips as well- Three of us were almost ran down by a semi in China Town.