Last week in a neighboring city, the fire department had an open house. Their website made it sound like it would be so swell! So trying to get out of the house so B could do homework in peace, I decided to take our ever so anxious children to see the fire trucks, ambulances and air-med helicopter. It had been raining most of the week, so this was one of our first outings of the week. Both of them we so so so excited to go. This first picture tells it pretty much like it was. The fire trucks & ambulances were parked outside (that's where automobiles are usually put!) but because of the rain, they weren't open so that we could look at them. That was disappointment #1. #2- The air-med helicopter was only there at certain times, we had just missed it and didn't want to wait around the three hours for it to come back. #3- Smoky the Bear was there. Holy smokes! You would think that our children were being beaten when they saw him. They both screamed and buried their faces into my closest body part. K
almost passed out from crying so hard(he does that on occasion). When I told him it was
OK, he said,"The
bear's gone?! Not coming this way?!" #4- There was a clown there. Now I thought most children liked clowns, not ours, they cried and cried. They didn't want to try on the fireman clothes that were there to try on and the weather didn't help their sad moods. There were two moments of happiness...
......Free popcorn! And.......
....When K saw the ambulance outside. Other than those two things, I would say it was a total disaster. When we left I asked why they had been so sad. K instantly started to cry and said," The bear gone?! He not coming this way?!" Oh dear! Next time we'll let someone else go and we'll look at their pictures and the fun they had and be glad we didn't go!
Last week in a neighboring city, the fire department had an open house. Their website made it sound like it would be so swell! So trying to get out of the house so B could do homework in peace, I decided to take our ever so anxious children to see the fire trucks, ambulances and air-med helicopter. It had been raining most of the week, so this was one of our first outings of the week. Both of them we so so so excited to go. This first picture tells it pretty much like it was. The fire trucks & ambulances were parked outside (that's where automobiles are usually put!) but because of the rain, they weren't open so that we could look at them. That was disappointment #1. #2- The air-med helicopter was only there at certain times, we had just missed it and didn't want to wait around the three hours for it to come back. #3- Smoky the Bear was there. Holy smokes! You would think that our children were being beaten when they saw him. They both screamed and buried their faces into my closest body part. K almost passed out from crying so hard(he does that on occasion). When I told him it was OK, he said,"The bear's gone?! Not coming this way?!" #4- There was a clown there. Now I thought most children liked clowns, not ours, they cried and cried. They didn't want to try on the fireman clothes that were there to try on and the weather didn't help their sad moods. There were two moments of happiness...
......Free popcorn! And.......
....When K saw the ambulance outside. Other than those two things, I would say it was a total disaster. When we left I asked why they had been so sad. K instantly started to cry and said," The bear gone?! He not coming this way?!" Oh dear! Next time we'll let someone else go and we'll look at their pictures and the fun they had and be glad we didn't go!
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