October is Fire Safety Month!

Which means... the fire station has their annual open house! Hooray!

It's actually been two years since the last time we went... Last year, the open house fell on the same weekend that the kids went to visit Gus' parents, so we missed it. However, we made sure to go this year, especially since the location was moved to the fire training tower facility instead of the actual station. It was pretty cool! We got to walk through the training tower, see a bunch of different vehicles, see a jaws of life demonstration, and the kids even got to spray a (small) fire hose at a target! The location was better, since there was more room to spread out, and we all enjoyed ourselves. Both kids ended up spraying the hose, though Nikos chickened out the first time (we went back right before we left, and that's when he finally did it). Still, it was really fun! And both kids are into fire safety right now, since they've been talking all about it at daycare. Just yesterday, Bonnie taught them a chant about how smoke goes up high, so they need to get down low and crawl to the exit (Nikos: "E-X-I-T! That spells 'exit,' and it means that's where you go out!").

But, without further ado... Photo overload! (October is always so photo-heavy... sheesh! Too much going on!)




And, one more... I took this as we were walking around to the other side of the fire tower for a tour, and it hit me that it looked just like a photo I took of Gus and Nikos the last time we went to the open house (link). And yes, Gus was even wearing the same jacket, haha!

Totally random note: In some of the pictures, you can see a long drain grate running along the ground. On the tour, we learned that the entire training tower facility sits on top of an olympic-sized swimming pool! When they do their training exercises, the water is pulled from the pool... and then it gets collected again via the system of drains all over the place. So they don't waste as much water. Smart!!