Water, Water everywhere!

 Today I had the privilege to go on a field trip with Dalyon.  It is always fun to go with the kids and see what they do in school and how they interact with their friends.  It has been a while since I went with them (about a year to be precise) and it was good to spend the morning with Dalyon.  We went to the "Water Fair" at Dixie State College.  It is a big production put on by the Utah water conservation department.  We learned about the ancient people who lived here and how they made pottery, used water, and about their technology back then.  We went to a class that taught us about the Hurricane water system, where we get our water, who works on the systems and what they add to the water to keep it safe.  Our natural spring is in Toquerville and the water is treated and pumped into the surrounding areas.  We learned about the water cycle and the kids got a chance to act it out by being wind, condensation, and precipitation.  They danced around and were silly, some more than others.  Dalyon and I took a minute to go and visit Grandma Winn at the Institute of Religion next door, because we knew she would be working today (and we saw her car).  For Dalyon the highlight of the experience was the mini class that showed us how they predict weather and the teacher had a machine that created a little tornado in the  room.  He also had videos from storm chasers that showed Category 5 tornadoes.  They are crazy scientists we decided (the storm chasers are crazy).  He also had a lot of "destruction" pictures of severe weather around our area.  I realized that we have really had some damaging storms and floods come through lately.  Here are a few pictures of our experience today.




Dalyon is sitting in a classroom at Dixie State College.  The seats
were a very big distraction for the kids because they swivel. 




Chanting and dancing.  Wind (clap) Wind (clap)




Condensation (clap) Condensation (clap)




PALS:   Dalyon and Dallas Davidson. 




Dalyon was precipitation.  He was a good raindrop that fell
to the ground and laid there chanting precipitation (clap) precipitation
(clap) precipitation (clap).  What a silly kid.