Our Trip to Taste of Texas by Ramya S. in Ms. O'Quinn's class

The field trip to the Taste of Texas restaurant was great!  Ms. Hendee (the owner of the Taste of Texas restaurant) knows a lot about Texas history!  You may even say she is obsessed with Texas history.  She has documents of the signatures of Moses Austin, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, and the notorious Santa Ana.  She has a replica of a cannon used in the Alamo and the different flags Texas used to have. If you ever go there, put your listening ears on.  She told us the whole entire story of Texas!  She picked volunteers to come up and dress in funny costumes.  One person would act as a person who settled in Texas because of the empresario (Stephen F. Austin), and the other person dressed as Davy Crockett.  Maybe they dressed in ridiculous costumes, but they got dessert!  Yum!  After Ms. Hendee told the story, we 4^th graders got to see the amazing illusion paintings by Bev Dolittle.  Two illusions were easy to see, but one was pretty hard!  That’s not all, though!  Before all of that, we got to go inside the restaurant freezer, 10^o below zero!  The last thing we did there at the Taste of Texas restaurant was lunch.  It was delicious - French fries and chicken strips.  The fun was not over yet!  After enjoying our time at The Taste of Texas restaurant, we went to Bear Creek Park!  You have the choice of seeing the animals (tropical birds, emu, and pigs) or going to play in the park. You’ll end up doing both if you choose the animals, but you don’t want to miss the cackling cockatoo!  You can roll down a small slope with your friends.  The playground has a giant spider web, slides, swings, and ladder arch.  It has a large field of soft grass.  You don’t want to miss the field trip to The Taste of Texas restaurant and Bear Creek Park.  You’ll have a pawesome time!