we made it!

Well, we successfully made it back from Myrtle Beach Friday night and we didn't lose a single sixth-grader! After three hours on the bus down there, we hit up Mideival Times which is a pretty cool dinner and show. You sit in a large oval (the theater seats over 1000 people) and eat chicken and potatoes with your hands and slurp soup from the bowl (because there was no silverware, I guess, in the Midieval time period). While you eat, they put on a huge production in the middle of the ring complete with horses, hawks, knights, jousting, battle axes, and sword fighting.

Our 400 sixth-graders outshown the rest of the crowd when it came to cheering for our designated knight! The cheerleaders led the way with the "Red and Yellow" (clap, clap, clap, clap, clap). We blasted everyone else out. However, at the end when the betraying knight was revealed, and the King asked the crowd whether or not he should live, our cute little blonde cheerleaders suddenly turned into ravenous mercinaries and began shouting "kill him, kill him!" It was quite an emotional show, I must say.

Then it was off to the Aquarium for a little while. The best part about that was the gift shop sold Excedrin which got rid of my Midieval-Times-sized headache. All in all, it was a fun trip. The kids had a blast, which was the whole point! Here are a few shots from the aquarium.

We managed to get most of the kids together for a group shot. We didn't really take into consideration, though, that when we told them all to head to the buses from this point, that we might create a massive stampeed! One of the poor, stampeeded visitors grumbled, "These kids need to be kept on a leash!" Oh, well...