We spent most of Saturday in firehouses, much to Will's delight. Turns out that that girls really enjoyed it too!
This is fire prevention week so most of the area firehouses had open-houses or other events planned for this week. As such, we visited the Bethesda/Chevy Chase station in Bethesda for a fun morning of ambulances, rescue vehicles, equipment trucks and more.
Maggie and Stella loved sitting in the ambulance.
Will watched every second of the extrication demonstration. They broke all the windows, cut out the windshield, used the "jaws of life" to cut off the doors and the roof of the car, and eventually get the woman out. Will was completely in awe and he wouldn't leave until she was out.
They had other fun things for the kids, too. Will got to put out some fires with a real firehose.
And then he took his turn driving the ladder-truck. He's so funny - he obsesses over trucks and firetrucks but when he gets a chance to see them, touch them, sit in them, etc. he is really scared. He warmed up pretty quickly today but it took Patti sitting with him and the Emergency Tech in the back of the ambulance to "prime the pump," if you will.
