Troy’s class went on a mission trip today to Discovery Village - Alliance, a retirement community in Fort Worth. Although, I probably would have just called it a field trip. I suppose it was considered a mission trip, because they sang songs about God (God Bless America, Our God is a Great Big God, and In the Garden), and shared the story of Easter with the residents, using resurrection eggs.
All of the kindergarten classes went, along with almost all of their parents, so it was a very large group piled into the common room. The parents were crammed into the back of the room, jockeying for position, hundreds of cell phones thrust into the air, trying to record it all. I got stuck behind these two dads that were both over six feet tall, so I had to try to peek in between them. Luckily, Troy was on the same side of the room as me, pure fluke, and he managed to spot me in the crowd about halfway through In the Garden. His face lit up with a megawatt smile when he realized that I had made it, and he waved at me. That smile never left his face after that. It was some kind of wonderful.
After the retirement community, everyone went to Bear Creek Park in Keller to have lunch and play. I’d never been to Bear Creek Park before, but it is absolutely massive. We picked one covered pavilion next to a shaded playground to set up base camp, while the kids explored the little creek nearby, played on the playground, threw footballs in a field, and dug in the sand. I tried to connect with several of the parents, but I ran into the clique monster again, eventually settling on a few others that were excluded too. It started to get hot, so everyone slowly drifted off in small groups until we were all gone.
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