What was your 8th grade class trip ?

[wyatterb]

I believe it was Brookfield Zoo.

[Adam West]

We had two trips actually.

One was a week long camp up in the mountains near Camp David. We had to put up with some square dancing and singing "home on the range" but otherwise, it was a good time.

The other trip was a two day trip....drove down to Kings Dominion in Richmond, VA from Maryland. We then headed down to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, VA. I think we rode the bus from King's Dominion to a hotel somewhere near Busch Gardens spent the day there and then took the trip home. My parents never took us to amusement parks so it was my first time visiting both.

[Mikey]

Our school was pretty lenient with the money issue.

Not all kids participated in every single money raising event.
The school really didn't care --- as long as you made an effort at a few of the money raising events.

and they never asked our parents for a cent.

Nobody was left out in the end.

Perhaps that was an advantage of going to a country/suburb school.
Everybody (including the school) took care of one another.

[toys2cool]

lol! mine was only $20 and included the bowling game and lunch

[Wee67]

We had to raise money or just get it from our parents.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Mine was a trip to Lincoln Zoo, and then a brief stop at Chinatown. 22 years ago and yet I still remember it pretty clearly. I spent most of the time listening to "Blizzard Of Oz" on my walkman

[Mikey]

I forgot .......
We also went to the top of the WTC

BTW,

Did you guys have to raise money to pay for your trip ?

We did a lot of Saturday stuff to pay for it ........
Mosty car washes every second week for 2 months.

[palitoy]

Bark Lake in the Haliburtan Highlands.

All day marchs, constantly being monitored, wearing dogtags and uniforms. It had a prison like atmosphere.....

[Wee67]

Hershey Park.

We even absconded with one of the bus sign-up sheets so we could get all of our friends on to one bus (3 buses made the trip). It was a blast and it was back when you toured the actual chocolate factory. Now you can only tour an animatronic representation of the factory.

[toys2cool]

wow that sounds like fun,My crappy trip was bowling and the worse part was that it was only one game

[Mikey]

What was your 8th grade class trip ?

Mine was a NYC extravaganza ....
Including .........

Battery Park

NYC's China Town (we had Lunch)

Tour of the Fulton Fish Market

Tour through the NY Daily News (and seeing the sets from Superman The Movie --- which was being filmed at the time)

Supper at the famous Mama Leone's

and finishing up with seeing the Braodway show Beatlemania --- at the Lunt Fontanne theatre.

All done in one day, and we didn't even stay over night.

It was a great class trip.


How 'bout you ?
Where did you go on your 8th grade class trip ?