If think back to my childhood and try to recall what made me most excited to wake up in the morning and get to class as soon as possible, there is really only one thing that comes to mind.  Field trips.  Sometimes the destination wasn’t even all that important. Just getting on a bus and being away from the constraints of the classroom was enough to make it all seem like a mini vacation.  As you may have already guessed, we had a field trip of our own this week.  The difference for me 20 years later is that the destination was of the utmost importance.  For myself it was a homecoming of sorts, but for the rest of our class it may as well have been trip to one of the seven wonders of the world.  We were on a bus headed for Chico, CA. Our destination was the Sierra Nevada brewery.