Field trip

We went on another field trip with Joy School. This one was to the fire station. One thing I didn't mention about our last field trip with the 15 passenger was our encounter with a swarm of bees. A HUGE swarm. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. OK, more like a million! Anyway, we were standing on the top of a hill playing with the parachute when all of a sudden we heard a buzzing sound that kept getting louder and louder. Then one of the moms started to yell, "RUN, RUN TO THE CAR!!, Take the kids and RUN!" Meanwhile the swarm came right over the hill in the middle of where all of us were in a huge glob. We were in the middle of them for a second before it registered what was happening and then we started to run! We got out of their way but that could have been very bad. Luckily no one was stung. Not even once. But they did get our hearts racing for quite  awhile.

 

So back to the  fire station. 

We got there and everything was going well.

 

The firemen were really nice and great with the kids. 

The kids were a little scared but seemed to like it ok. We got a tour and got some great instruction.

Everyone had their turn sitting in the truck. 

 

And on the truck.



Then we gave them the brownies we made to say thank you and it was time to leave. 
But after we had buckled the kids into their car seats there was another firemen working on a truck parked right behind us. He somehow lost his footing and fell onto his back. Unfortunately, he was hurt pretty badly and we needed to wait for him to be carried away on a stretcher and an ambulance came. We don't know yet what exactly happened but we hope he is OK.

With the bees and a hurt fireman, maybe we should take a break from field trips for a while.

But on a brighter note, it was Western Day at school for McKay that day and I think he looked so cute!