Fall Fiesta and fire trucks

We had a busy but fun day. The pictures are in reverse order (as usual)


Bug riding the bulldozer on the playground. He had to wait a turn, but it was worth it. Then he was off to the diggers and more waiting.
Of course he had to swing for a while
And then it was off to the slide, where he insisted on going down backward and on his belly because his friend E did the same thing. He was having fun and jumping around
when we got to Fall Fiesta, Bug painted his pumpkin. He wanted me to paint it first, so I painted a face on it and then he took the paint and redecorated it.

Our friend D was at the fiesta- looking not too happy to be a duck
These are the kids at the fiesta- nearly all of them came home from Guatemala- we will see the same group again at the Christmas fiesta in December
This is Bug and E- not that Bug is not looking happy at all. He is my little fireman
Then it was time to go trunk or treating. Bug refused to say trick or treat and refused to talk to any one other than me. Yet again his shyness got the better of him.

In the morning, I made a spontaneous decision at 8:30 am to go to the zoo. We had not been to the zoo all summer and i felt we needed a morning outside, watching the animals. Bug wanted to see the monkeys first thing, so we headed to Gibbon island.

We saw a peacock on the way to the big cat house. The peacock was trying to get ahead of us and I kept speeding up to keep pace.

This was the first time, we went in the car house. We saw lots of cats sleeping, but the sand cats were up and pacing about. I think it was getting close to the time that the doors to outside cages were due to be open.
After seeing the cats, we headed over to the carousel to ride- Bug choose the white tiger in keeping with the cat theme.
We took a train ride- highlight of the trip to the zoo for Bug
And we ended our trip to the zoo with a viewing of the giraffes. We missed the feeding time, but we are going back to the zoo in 2 weeks for more trick or treating.


Friday night, we were planning on going to the football game to see Jason and the band play at half time, but the schedule was changed and the band was not going to play until after the game ended, which is very later, so instead we had dinner with Mam and Pap and then headed over to the fire house to see the fire trucks.

The captain came out to talk to us and took us on a tour. We missed the official open house last weekend because of being in TN.
As much as Bug loves firetrucks, he refused to sit in the firetruck, stand on the firetruck or be anywhere near the fire truck without me. So this is a close as we got. the captain gave Bug a "jr firefighter" badge and Bug will wear that on his fireman costume for Halloween.
Well Bug is fast asleep and I am getting tired. So off to bed for me.

Love and hugs to you,

Deb