Today I went with Rowan on her Integrated Class field trip. Integrated is either social studies or science. The one she is currently in is social studies. It's called "Mysteries of History" and she is studying pre-Columbian Central and South American tribes - Aztecs, Incas, Mayans.

Normally, their ADI (All Day Integrated) field trip for this class would involve recreating a pre-Columbian village - a day in the life sort of thing - up in the foothills above Boulder, but because we've had some snow of late, they switched to the Build an Inuit Igloo field trip, for which we went up to Brainard Lake - also up in the foothills.

Unfortunately, the snow was light, powdery - great for skiing, not good for igloo building - so after a morning of shoveling snow into boxes, spraying it with water, and making igloo bricks that just wouldn't hold together, we had lunch and bailed on the igloo project. Instead we went walking  - SLIDING - on Brainard Lake.

It's probably hard to tell from the photo, but Rowan and I had a blast. And also, damn it's gorgeous here.