This week is Xander's spring break and when we woke up in the morning we noticed it was white outside. The news said we got 7 inches of snow last night, so many school closed including Khai's. We looked out the window and saw our tree branches were so low because of the wet and heavy snow. It's spring break and we suppose to go out and play, not shoveling snow..
The snow in the drive way was very wet and heavy. I told boys to brush the snow off from the branches. The branches will jump high once you cleared the snow, really fun doing that. Kids would even hide under the bushes while I cleared the snow. We had a great snow day today.
Xander's class had a field trip at Chelsea and they planned to visit the Tree house, Jiffy Mix and Bear Factory, students got a teddy bear at the end of the tour (of course you have to pay for the bear and admission to the Tree house). It was Khai's spring break, so I decided to take Khai along with us.
We learned that Khai couldn't enter the Jiffy mix tour few days before the trip because he is under 6, so I told him ahead of time that he cannot attend the tour but we could walk around Chelsea down town. We pass Chelsea every Friday to go to Chinese school but only stopped there to visit its farmers' market few years ago. It would be nice to walk around there.
The Tree house was a indoor playground which is pretty similar to McDonald's except it sells pizza and expensive meals. Kids were having lots of fun running around and playing with their friends. They finished their pizza and lemonade, ready to visit Jiffy Mix cross street. Khai and I had 90 minutes break so we walked to Chelsea downtown and visited small shops. It was a nice day outside and so fun to walk around with Khai. We even stopped by a flower shop and looked at their fancy water fountains.
We still had 20 minutes before the class came to the Teddy Bear Factory, so I took Khai to visit the factory first. It wasn't the factory that I thought you make a wish and stuff inside your bear and get your hands on building your own bear. It just a store displayed many already finished teddy bears and you saw some people sewing the bears or stuffing cottons inside the bears through the glass.
A lady did gave us a tour and told about the history of the teddy bears, she then took us inside the factory and explained us how they made a teddy bear by showing us the patterns, plates and cutting machine. We ran out of time so we had to wrap up the tour and had each kid pick a teddy bear.
Xander said he had lots of fun at the Jiffy Mix and he picked up a Brownie mix from the factory, way to go Xander! It will be only 2 more years until Khai can visit Jiffy Mix. We had a long but fun field trip.
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