Field Trip to the Cowboys Stadium!

Woah.  What a cool place, and BOY did my class have a BLAST.  We got to play on the field.  The. Field.  The whole time.  It was so A.W.E.S.O.M.E. 

Kendra with her good buds, R & M, on th bus all excited to get there.

I was the official school photographer, and I took a picture of EVERY fourth grader (all 128 of 'em) scoring in the endzone.

'Course, I scored, too.  :-)  Nice catch, eh?

This is me with one of my dads.  I asked him and his wife if they wanted an endzone shot, and he said he wanted one like this with me.  Who am I to let down a parent request?  :-)  Seriously great people---love this family.

Locker room tour next...Kendra by the mighty Romo's locker.  They told us the lockers each cost $9,000 because of the fancy wood they used. 

I don't see a career in football in her future. 

Kendra's favorite part.  This was in the press room.  Kendra got behind the "speaking table" and for some reason every single one of her classmates sat in the press chairs while she "took questions" from them.  Not sure why they all didn't bombard the table along with her, but she loved that spotlight. 

Another parent was kind enough to take Kendra with them to the Pro Shop.  I had brought cash, and I just gave her the whole $27 and said "Please don't spend it all."  She came back with this foam finger.  Think about stadium pro shops and how they jack up the prices.  How much do you think she paid?  It was ONE dollar.  The only thing in the store that was one dollar!  Good girl!  Oh, and good thing I got a picture of her with it.  Another one of my kids really wanted one but the store had run out, so Kendra asked me if she could give hers to the girl. What a sweetie!

Because of all the pictures I had to take and my phone calamity (explained later in this post) I didn't get to spend much time with Kendra on this trip.  But we did manage to get this one pic of us together on the big star in the center of the field right before we left. 

Much more subdued on the bus ride home.  All my kids were quiet--they had tuckered themselves right out!  ME too! 

The phone story:  Right before lunch, I took all my kids to the restroom inside the cafe restaurant place.  I used the restroom and stupidly put my phone on the toilet tissue dispenser, then promptly left it there.  I realized my mistake about 20 minutes later and rushed back (down three sets of stairs and across the field), but to no avail.  It was gone.  My friend Missie was on the field trip with me and when she saw me sprinting across the field she figured out what happened and started calling my phone.  It rang and someone answered it, but then hung up.  Several parents had my number so they started calling it and texting, but no response.  We weren't the only people there---several other schools were visiting as well.  So I'm guessing some kid grabbed it.  Of course, they had use of it for about 2 hours before I suspended usage on it, so now they have a very expensive phone that won't do anything and if they try to activate it, it will be flagged as stolen and the store will confiscate it.  How dumb.  And dishonest.  And unkind.  Yes, I was stupid to leave it.  But it really stinks to know that someone has no scruples AND has many pictures of my cutie girl, too.  Stinks.  Bad. 

BUT, as we were riding home on the bus and Kendra came to sit by me, I turned to her and said, "You know, they took a phone.  They didn't take you."  It's all about perspective.  None of my kids got hurt today, we all had fun, and it's all good.  It's a phone.  That's all.