Finally!...Our October Activities

Alright already! I am going to share some of the stuff we did in the month of October. I know... you are excited :)

Every year during Fire Prevention Week, a local fire station (at the beach) hosts a Fire Safety Display. Fire trucks and even a couple of ambulances from all over the area come and park. In the past they have also had a rescue bus, a helicopter, rescue boats and jet skis. Once or twice they have even had the "Smoke House" that the fire dep't uses for training and demonstrations. We have been a few times in the past and Max loves it. The fire dep't has pizza and lemonade and cookies to eat (for free) and they also pass out the plastic fire hats (which is good because by every October our hats from the previous years are pretty beat up) and other fun stuff for the kids.

This year we went since we missed last year due to yucky weather and although it was fun, it didn't seem as big as it has in the past. They climbed on and in the fire trucks,

walked around on the rescue boats,

"drove" the jet ski,

and then took a turn on the giant inflatable slide (I don't have a picture of that because by the time Lucy and I walked to the other side of the slide to meet them at the exit they were already down).

John hiked up the hill where we thought they had parked the helicopter but it wasn't there this year. I didn't feed the kids before we left because we always have pizza when we are there. They were cleaned out of pizza within 30 minutes of the event starting! LOTS of hungry people I guess :) So, since John had to leave early to go back to work I walked around for a couple more minutes with the kids then we headed back to the car so we could go scrounge up some food somewhere.

I guess we left at the right time because as we were leaving, several of the fire trucks started heading out as well. The kids had a blast walking down the sidewalk and stopping and waving to the loud, siren blaring, horn honking, lights flashing fire trucks as they drove by. I'm pretty sure they had a good time, but Max even commented that it wasn't as big as it used to be and maybe not as much fun. We'll see how it goes next year :)

Coming Soon in another post...the Pumpkin Patch and pumpkin painting...