A Field Trip to George Ranch

I got to go on a field trip to George Ranch. This was the first thing I saw at the Ranch as I was on the bus.


When I got off the bus, it took a while to figure out where we were going. There were a lot of buses. When we started walking, we went on a bridge and I started taking pictures of the river. After looking at this picture, I saw an alligator in the background, really far away.


After we crossed the bridge, we saw a little tent. On one side was an alligator baby and alligator bones. On the other side were snakes. This was a snake in a cage. I think it's a coral snake.


This is a nice snake. We didn't get to hold it, but we got to touch it. I also got a sticker saying, "I touched a snake."


Then we went to the other side of the tent and got to touch a baby alligator. Then I got sticker saying, "I touched a real, live baby alligator."


Then we started walking a bit, and I saw some tents. I have no idea what are in any of the tents.

This is a guy pouring water in a can so that he could put it on his head, and the teenage boy will shoot a hole in it and make water come out.


Then the guy who poured the water showed us the "Air and Space" Museum tent. He said it was a real air and space museum with nothing inside, so all of us got to go in and put new air in it and new space in it.


Then we walked to a graveyard. We were trying to see who was the oldest person who died in the graveyard and who was the youngest person. The oldest person was about 66 years old, and then the youngest person was 6 months old.


Then we walked to the blacksmith. First everyone wanted to see a mouse, and then we went back to the blacksmith. This is some of the coal in it. The blacksmith was making something, but I don't know. We got to see metal white-hot. Then we asked questions, and he answered them.


After the blacksmith, we went to a place where we could eat lunch. This was the spider hanging from the tree near me while I ate.


Then I lost my tooth while eating a grape. That's how wiggly it was. Someone gave Mrs. Rychlik a bag, and she gave it to me, so I could put my tooth in it. Luckily she was right next to me and saw my tooth come out.


After lunch, we walked toward a covered wagon and took some pictures in front of it.


Then I went inside a house. Luckily my camera didn't have a flash, so I could take pictures. The turkey is plastic. I looked going in the house and seeing the fancy stuff in the house.


Then we went to a printer. He showed us how to print. One line got to print Spanish words, and the other got to print English words.


I got to print the English words, which was about independence from Mexico. The printer said that, at the time, Mexicans would shoot you if they saw you with it. Outside it was windy, so it dried off the ink, but I lost the paper.


Then we went to a house and learned about the house. Then we went outside and made cotton. She showed us cotton flowers.


Then she gave us each some cotton and two brushes. We put the cotton in between the brushes and rubbed the brushes together. Then when we were done brushing it, we took one end of a brush and combed it down from the top of the other brush. Then we did the same for the other one. We got to keep some of the cotton, but most of the cotton we got to give to her.


Then it was time for a restroom and water break.


Then we walked to a garden with a tree house in it and we got to climb up the tree house. Then we walked to statues of the people who founded George Ranch and took a picture. They named it George Ranch, I think, after their last names.


Then we got to go inside the house that they owned. Once we walked in their was a person who was playing the fiddle. I liked his music.


Then we got back on the buses and went to school. The last few minutes of school, Mrs. Rychlik had us pretend we were exhausted and take a nap. It was a fun field trip.