The field trip to the Tate Modern and the Tate Britain was a very quick, hectic trip. I forgot how loud a charter bus full of kids is and how much junk they can eat in a couple of hours. While the students were on the tour I quietly slipped away to test out the slides. The guy who designed them was an entamologist who studied the travel and communication of bugs… I guess this is how he justifies building a slide in a museum, either way I appriciated it. After traveling down the slides I had trouble finding my group and felt a bit ridiculous frantically running around looking for a group of kids while wearing a bright red sticker that read, “Tate: Visiting Teacher.” I did see Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure, a piece that my students at Homestead studied. The students were able to travel down some of the lower slides. After visiting the Tate Modern we took a boat down the Thames River, passing the Houses of Parliment, to reach the Tate Britain. This museum was beautiful. Before seeing any of the works all the teachers went to the museum cafe for cups of tea. I think I will always be amazed by the tea consumption here. No students fell in the Thames, knocked over any statues or got stuck in revolving doors (although they came close) so overall it was a good trip.