Visit to the Bay City Fire Station

I've been meaning to take Cooper to visit the fire station for about a year now, but we never quite got to it until today, despite the guys always inviting us to come and see them - for those who haven't been here, the fire station is on the corner of the next block in front of us, we can see the back of it from the house and the engines go past several times a day and often pull over to say hi or wave out. Since getting a fireman costume for Christmas, we often have 'Fireman Sam' here at the house (note the special fireman face in the photo here taken in January with pyjamas underneath!) and he spent a good half-an-hour climbing all over one of the fire trucks when they were parked in the street for the St Patrick's Day parade last month. So today when we walked past, the doors were open and Fireman Paul showed us around and even slid down the pole as a demonstration! (yes they actually do have poles just like in the storybooks!!!). Here is Cooper outside the firestation - the photo doubles as a "Springtime in Bay City" photo with the tulips and blossoms and some others here in the kodakgallery.