Your Most Memorable Grade School Field Trip?

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Due to district budgetary restrictions, school field trips are gradually becoming a thing of the past for many elementary and high school students. The days of simply hopping onto a yellow bus and heading towards a fascinating and informative destination are seemingly long gone.

In retrospect, I remember some interesting 6th grade field trips. On one occasion, we went to the SF shipping docks and boarded a United Fruit Company banana freighter learning about how the fruit was shipped from Central America to the US. On another excursion, the class visited the United Airlines maintenance hanger at SFO and watched DC-8s being prepared for their next flight. In high school, physics classes frequently visited the linear accelerator (SLAC) at Stanford while physiology students toured the Stanford Med School. Looking back, I recall a resident MD at the med-school morgue confiding to us that he often kept a ham sandwich chilled in one of the slide-out body depositories during his graveyard shifts. These field trips also provided a vocational perspective for those so inclined.

Curious if any TRFers here had any interesting and/or memorable field trips during their elementary and high school years.