Fire Station

My blog was beginning to look like a "medical blog" (boring!) so I thought I'd add some pics to change it up a bit.  We went the fire station for "Annual Special Needs Day" a few weeks ago.  The big boys and Blake went fishing so it was just the girls, Caleb and Mom.  Any kid with special needs and their families are invited.  They do tons of activities and the fire fighters even cook up lunch for everyone. The best part is, it's all free!  The kids love it!

Here's Caleb's face right when we got out of the car and he heard sirens and saw the first fire truck.  Of course, this was one of the best days of Caleb's life!  lol  He was fascinated and didn't want to leave - even 4 hours later.

First we all got to ride in a fire truck.  Katie got to sit in the front seat.  They turned on the sirens and honked the horn and everything.  I didn't get pictures because the kids were too excited (especially Caleb!)  and I was having too much fun enjoying their excitement to think about a camera.

The kids got to spray a real fire hose.

Then we went up in one of the fire trucks.  Holy cow, that was high!!  Apparently the ladders go up to 100 feet, but since it was really windy, they only took us up to 65 feet.  "only" 65 feet.  Eeeeek!  I really, REALLY didn't want to go but the girls talked me into it.  At about 45 feet... 4 stories up... I told the guy that was high enough and made him stop.  Yep, I've become a wimp.  Caleb started getting scared too because it was windy and he kept wiggling and I thought for sure he was going to jump right off the side.
Here's proof that I really got in that thing:

Face painting:

Lydia and Elizabeth opted for their hands painted instead of their face:

 Riding in little fire trucks:

Inside 2 different ambulances:

And inside a medical helicopter.  They are a lot bigger inside than you would expect.

Then they got to watch the helicopter take off from about 100 feet away.
hey really enjoyed that, but it was so LOUD!

We watched fire fighters climb down the side of a building.  Scary!  This is the building that was right next to us when we went up in the fire truck and we could see the top of the roof.  They climbed down from that height!  Wow, I'm sure glad I'm not a fire fighter!  lol

  Even with all those fun things to do, the kids just had to... climb a fence, of course.  Whatever. lol

Standing by a fire truck. Caleb wanted to DRIVE the fire truck, not get his picture taken by it.

And they all got fire hats as we left.