Field Trip to Meijer Gardens

Learning about Levers.

    A few weeks ago we went on another field trip with William's school. We went to the Meijer Gardens. There where a lot of cool things to see. I had William and one of his other friends from school that also has Type 1 diabetes. We went to Meijer gardens because the class was was learning about simple machines. We were there with a few other classes from William's school. They had a session there where they discussed the simple machines that William's class had been learning about. They had demonstrations of actual simple machines they had set up. We went into a farm house to learn about levers and incline planes. Then we went to the barn to learn about pulleys ,screws and wedges. The student got to learn how hard it is to pick up a box of rocks without pulleys but when you add a pulley system how much easier it gets. It was good to see all of the students so interested in learning and trying out the different activities they had set up.

This was my Favorite

Beautiful Butterflies

    We also got to see some pretty amazing things. We got to see the butterflies are blooming event that they had going on. It was pretty cool to see all of the butterflies flying around. There where so many different butterflies. William and his friend took the book that they gave out as you went into the exhibit and tried to identify the butterflies. It was amazing to see them open the book as we were looking at a butterfly and try to find the picture that matched the butterfly. They would call out what they thought it was and quickly move on to the next one.

This was a very cool Replica.

    We also got to tour the rest of the campus. They had a Japanese Zen garden. They had a sculpture garden, and a kids discovery zone. We got to see so many different things this day. By the end of the day my feet were tired and so were the two young men with me. Diabetes was kind to all of us this day. I only had to treat a low for William and his friend one time and their number were good the rest of the day. We learned a lot and got to see some beautiful things as well. I love being part of seeing William learn and grow. It was a long but fun day.

I hope we have many other fun adventures,

Your Loving Dad