Post Office Field Trip

This morning Faith and I had the opportunity to visit the local post office on a field trip!  Since Faith has been saying for over a year now that she would like to be a mail carrier when she grows up, I thought she would be extra excited about this field trip!!  And I was amazed at how much we learned about all the steps our mail goes through to make it to our homes!

All the kids thought it was pretty cool to be able to go in the back room of the post office!  Here is one of the mail carriers sorting mail as she prepares to put it on her truck.

Our tour guide asked for a child who knew their address, and she picked Faith!!  So the whole group went along to find out where our family's mailbox at the post office is located!  She is pointing to it in this picture!

And our mail carrier was there, making all the preparations for his deliveries today.

In our progression of following how mail gets to our houses, we traveled out to a mail truck to see the mail there.

We found an empty truck, and all the kids were able to climb inside!! 

Faith at the wheel of the mail truck!  When I asked her afterwards if she still wanted to be a mail carrier, she said that she would rather be a mom like me!

The entire group of kids in front of a truck!

Once again, I am thankful for these great opportunities to take interesting and informative field trips with Faith!  It is so wonderful to belong to such a great homeschool group that has a mom in charge of just setting up the field trips!  Amazing!!