Monhegan Madness: Inter-Island Field Trip

We were VERY excited last week to go our on Fall Inter-Island Field trip with our TLC school buddies!

We left Monhegan on a rather windy day.

The boys from the hood were ready for the adventure... at least I think they were.

We loaded our gear and ourselves onto the lobster boat and said our goodbyes.

We first landed at Pizza Hut for a little lunch action. I don't think I have been at a Pizza Hut since college. I have to say, it was pretty good.

We arrived at Camp Jordon, our home for the next few nights. We met the Islesford School there and right away the kids just started running and jumping for joy! I think the were pretty pumped to be together again.

I think it took about 5 minutes before the kids decided it would be a good idea to start up a capture the flag game before we needed to head to our first program of the trip.

Team huddle.

A bunch of Capture the Flag hoodlums hanging out in jail.

Two super cuties.

After a super quick game it was time to load into our cars and head to the Space Challenger Center in Bangor... my new favorite place, ever.

The rest of our island friends met us at the Challenger Center. He is Quinny with his buddies from Cliff! Soooo cute.

The entire group circled up before heading into the Challenger Center.

But first a photo op.

Once we were inside the kids were immediately given roles (they were either on the Mission Control Team or the Astronaut Team) and then they were sent into the conference room to accept their mission. BUT first, they had to sanitize their hands... this just cracks me up.

Inside the conference room the astronauts were given blue space vests. Each astronaut had a partner who was on the Mission Control team that they were assigned to work with from space. Both D & Q were on the astronaut team first. They were headed out to space for their mission!

In the dark spaceship ready for lift off!

Astronauts arriving at the space station... can you SEE the excitement!?

Here we are at the space station... let me tell you, it was SO cool. Everyone had their own post to do their work. Each student had a notebook full of "task cards" to follow in order to work with their team and complete the mission. Most of the astronauts had to communicate with their partners back at Mission Control through headsets or emails!

The commander gave some brief instructions and then the astronauts were on their own... not even the teachers could help them!

Quinn was the aeronautical engineer... which met he got to wear a lab coat in work in a glass room all by himself plugging and unplugging wires to get the probe to work. BEST JOB EVER!