Visit to the fire station

Today we, along with Josh and Sadie and Scott and Hailey, Karis, & Avery, went to the fire station for a tour. Kevin set this up as he has decided to decorate Roc's room in a fire engine theme, so why not get him even more interested by getting to actually look at the different trucks, the station and meet some real firemen. The children were all given stickers, a hat, and pencils. We toured the whole station and the firemen explained what they did, what each room was, what there specific duties were, etc. Also we even have some fire women in this town! I think he said there were three but I can't quite remember. The adults were more interested in all these facts, but the children got more excited when they got to get in the trucks. They first got in one of the old fashioned ones. (I was a bit disappointed that all the children wanted to do this, but Ella-but oh well I am not into forcing something just to get a picture) Then we went outside to check the others out. Roc sat in the drivers seat with Kevin and tooted the horn. Then (I think it was Sadie) got to turn the sirens on. At first the girls did not want this to happen as they thought it would be to loud- I was fearing some tears, but then Hailey decided it was funny, so that got them laughing instead- Thanks Hailey-you're a real trouper! Then the real highlight came-they let the adults ride up in the ladder-Kevin and I went first, then Scott and Josh (with one of the firemen). The put these heavy duty belts on us and then linked us to the side of the ladder cage. It was really high up, I think 100 feet. The view was amazing and it was only slightly scary when it moved. The last thing they did was one of the firemen got all dressed up in his suit they wear for fighting fires and showed us everything they put on and why. I think it was a really great experience and the firemen were very informative and spent a lot of time talking to us. It was great and I am glad we did it. I took a lot of pictures so decided to try a slide show instead. For some reason I could not get the -add a page element- slide show to work so I am adding it through slide.com instead.