We just started school on Monday, and I was already itching for a field trip! It was a spontaneous trip to Seattle to the Ballard Locks to see the salmon ladder. We've been there several times before, but we've never seen any salmon in those stinking ladders! Today was our lucky day. Jackpot!
We talked about the life cycle of a salmon, and of course I had to mention how amazing this whole journey is, traveling all the way back to their birthplace to spawn, even though it's upstream the whole way. (Is this an appropriate time to say how great smoked salmon tastes?)
We also spent some time watching the boats go through the locks, and it was a great chance to talk about how locks work, and even daydream a little about where each boat was going and what they'd be doing. The sun was setting in Seattle, it was a gorgeously sunny day, so I'm sticking this in my memory bank to latch onto in about two months when the "gray winter" hits the Pacific Northwest.
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