I'm 22 and I went on a field trip today!

First things first...if you know me well enough, you may have caught my small mistake in the title of this post.

I'm not 22...I'm 21.

But I thought I'd leave it to prove how brain-dead I am at the moment.

After writing it, I literally sat here for 30 seconds, trying to figure out if I was 21 or 22.

(I even sat and did the math from my birthday...pathetic)

I remember being younger and not understanding how my mom would have to "think" about how old she was.  My little self used to always think, how do you not know!? I know how many months and days until my next birthday!

And now...at the ripe age of 21 (or 22?) I now understand.

Sorry for judging, mama. ;)

Anyways! The reason of this post!

Today I led my first field trip (all by myself!) for my two government classes.

I had 3 awesome dads who came and helped chaperone--so grateful for awesome parents.

I was so nervous last night, I could hardly sleep.

What if something goes wrong?

What if I lose a student?

I'm a stress case...clearly.

I got to work extra early this morning to lay everything out.

We left at 9am.

To the Utah capitol we go!

One small hiccup:

Our tour started at 10am.

When I got there, they said they had no tour listed for my school.

What!? I scheduled this in NOVEMBER, and even got an email confirmation!

I started panicking--what am I going to do with all of these students and no tour!?

Then one of the employees offered to give us a tour (even though she normally doesn't).

Saving grace, I tell you!

And some serious answers to the prayers I said all last night and all this morning asking for things to run smoothly--don't you love when that happens?

So, we got the tour!

It was awesome.

Thanks to some major digging and asking around--we got 2 PRIVATE tours not open to the public!

One to the capitol basement.

One to the Utah Emergency Quarters (wrong name--something close to that).

One of my student's grandpa works there--connections! Love it.

That place was so cool.

We got a picture with our representative.

We got recognized on the House floor.

And the whole House applauded my little class for coming.

Oh...and my students convinced me to be in a Harlem Shake Video in front of the capitol.

All in all, I felt pretty successful by day's end.

Plus, the students loved it!

Yep..I am the one on the very right...and yep, I am shorter than all of my of students.

Whew! Glad that is over. :)