Yesterday I had to go to the Agency of Transportation to register some big trucks and get our IFTA permits. Since the office is in Montpelier, our state capital, I decided to make it a field trip day!!! Whoo-Hoo!

First we did the AOT paperwork stuff to get it out of the way.

Then we popped upstairs to the homeschooling office in the Dept. of Ed and said "Hi!" because DD is quite obsessed that "people in that office in that place will look at my work" (Translation: the homeschool consultants will assess her portfolio for appropriate progress) and I wanted her to feel more comfortable about that. None of the consultants was actually in, but the office manager was wonderful and now DD has a positive image of them.

Then, we went to the State House. We visited the House and Senate Chambers, looked at the portrait of a former governor who is a friend of the family, and hunted for fossils in the marble tiles on the floor. (We found a ton!) She was also very interested in the news reporter filming a segment there, so we watched the 6 o'clock news, and she almost fell over when she saw on TV what she had seen in person.

Finally, we went to the Historical Society Museum. There is a real life-sized Abenaki longhouse in there which is full of baskets with please-touch-me items. DD loved this best of all and did not want to leave. I got some great pictures for her portfolio!

On the 90+ minute ride each way we listened to two different Jim Weiss tapes of Greek Myths.

Last night we read 2 chapters of Felicity, and today she is just blowing through her "paper-work" with great focus.

Kerri, many of the families in this area are French/English bilingual and the parents do the Mom speaks French only, Dad speaks English only thing. I tried to get my FIL to speak only French to my kids, but he refused. He's still mad because he didn't speak English when he went to school, so he flunked first grade.