We joined a local homeschool field trip group for a Wild West field trip to the Frazier International History Museum.  This museum opened in Louisville KY a few years ago as the Frazier Historical Arms Museum and I promptly decided I would never go there.  I didn't even realize they changed their focus until this field trip was posted.  Of course, they still have historical weapons there, but also other things.  The field trip part included a scavenger hunt through the history of cowboys and the Wild West, a cowboy story time, craft, and a performance by a "cowboy" about his life as a cowboy in the wild west.

However, we had a little free time and headed over to the Survivor Jamestown exhibit, which was definitely the favorite part of the visit for both of us.  S5 was assigned a character of a real life person from the first year in Jamestown and given a "life chart" which was kind of like an abacus with 4 columns for Health, Food, Wealth, and Morale.  I think I am forgetting another category, but you get the idea.  The bead for each column had a start value and you could earn or lose points based on your journey through the maze.  If you lost all points in any category, your character "dies".  Then you enter the maze and there were many choices, questions, and fun activities (including a zip cord - Samuel's favorite!).  At each station you could earn or lose points like I said.  We were doing this during our "lunch break" - at 10:50! - so we had to hurry through the end to get to our next group activity.  We did die, but had so much fun doing it, Samuel didn't even care.  We both want to go back.