Fire Station & Cookies

"I want to be a fireman when I grow up!"

On Friday it was a beautiful cool day. We headed out at 10:00 to a field trip with one of our homeschooling groups to the oldest fire station in town. It's the only one that still has the classic sliding pole! As you can see they are fascinated by it. The kids had a wonderful time! We had a tour of the fire house and got to see where the fire fighters sleep, eat, and relax.

Check out the neat fire hat flag pole.

I thought it was very interesting that mostly all of the fire fighters are also EMTs or Paramedics. In our town if 911 is called it is the fire dept. that comes to call! They do so much more than fight fires. We got to see one of the firemen put on his fire equipment and we heard the siren that wakes them up. Then the kids got to crawl around on a REAL fire engine. How cool is that?

Then later that afternoon we made one of our favorite recipes: Soft gingersnaps!

Yum yum to my tum tum!