Oh yes This was going to be good This was what I was waiting to hear Of course we all knew about the annual field trip Each year Mrs Cupcake continued our Parent Advisory Council sponsors the trip and our teachers volunteer their time so that the class can go This year we are heading to Drumheller My mom is on the Parent Advisory Council Here finally was something she did that was worthwhile Everything else was mostly embarrassing Like showing up in the gym when we had an all-school assembly or going to the school board to complain about the fact we didn’t have enough instruments for everyone in music class and things like that But if my mom was getting us to Drumheller that was all right 5
Is that in Arkansas asked Dudley Jones We mostly call him Dud No Dudley Mrs Cupcake sighed Drumheller is in Alberta It’s about a six-hour ride on the school bus Holy moly Six hours on a school bus I didn’t know if I could handle that Twenty minutes every day was bad enough especially when the third graders were singing The Never Ending Song But the third graders weren’t going on this field trip so we might be okay Now of course you know that Drumheller is famous for its dinosaur museum We’ll be seeing dinosaur bones dinosaur replicas other fossils all sorts of exciting things gushed Mrs Cupcake We will be studying this topic in great detail before we go Mark rolled his eyes at me 6
You will have a chance to do research into different kinds of dinosaurs We will make a dinosaur collage and you will be writing dinosaur stories She made it sound as if we were lucky that we would get to do schoolwork But I knew there would be a but to all this we need to raise money to be able to go Great There had to be a catch to going on a big field trip They wouldn’t just let us go and have fun for a week We’d have to work for it and earn it first
