3rd Grade Field Trip

In my group I had Ali, and her two friends Lauren and Katie.

I had the opportunity to go with Ali on her third grade field trip, Thursday, September 26th. This field trip was focusing on science and things they are learing in school right now. We were able to go the movie theater at Jordan Landing, the park in Copperton for lunch and on to the mine portion of Kennecott. It was really cool to see the open pit mine just a few days after we were at the concentrator with our family. The whole process just made a lot more sense and it was cool to see the ginormous dump trucks that my dad drives.

This is a shovel, loads the trucks. It was directly below me so I couldn't get a great shot.

We went to the movie theater's first and were able to watch about 10 to 15 minutes of previews. Then they split us up into smaller groups and gave us the grand tour. Showed us how everything works and popped fresh popcorn for all the kids. The manager told us that the movies they get on actual film still are rented for $5,000.00 and if they get scratched or damaged in anyway they have to purchase the movie but then still give it back to the film company. He also told us that 85% of our movie tickets go back to Hollywood, to pay the actors, production team and all that jazz. The movie theater runs almost solely on the concessions stand and that is why items are more expensive. The biggest portion of the concessions stand pays for operations of the movie theater, Payroll, Insurance, purchasing/renting movies etc. So that made a lot more sense to me and can see why it is around $8.00 a ticket.

We went to Copperton after that and had a nice lunch at the park. Very nice little park and town. I hadn't been there since my junior year in high school and our homecoming dance was at the old Bingham High there (that was years ago...shhhh).

Once we finished lunch they took us up to the visitor center at the mine. Again another very fascinating time for me. I could have stood there and watched for an hour or so. I am going to have to go back one time when my dad can go with me so he can show me the ropes. He was working that day and Ali and I watched for his truck. He said at the time we were there he was probably at the bottom of the mine. Which from where we were standing those monster trucks looked like little tonka's and it seemed like if we were close enough we could have picked one up with our fingers.

It was a fun mom and daughter day. I am glad I was able to go.