Small Town Saturday's

Well, I'm going to post this w/ fore-warning...we live in a small town (a VERY small town). And as most of you know Mike and I are always on the quest to find FREE & FUN things to do on the weekends. Well, this weekend was an all-time-step-outside-your-box weekend. Our local city-public-works was having a "field day". Basically this means that the city road crews were offering up their area for the whole town to see. And while they were at it, they had "fun" (and that is in quotes for a reason) for the kids & adults to do......

When we arrived, we were given a cute little tote-bag w/ draw-boards, information and stickers for the kids to take home with them. AND...a yellow hard hat. (That was not hard, but plastic, but just the same..the kids loved it!!)

Now, as for what Anne Marie is doing in the above picture.....she's standing in front of a HUGE mountain of gravel/asphalt that they made for the kids w/ tunnels to climb on & through! TRULY! And, should I mention I put Anne Marie in a CUTE (CUTE CUTE) outfit that consisted of white (WHITE WHITE WHITE I TELL YOU) shorts w/ pink ladybugs on them & a pink & WHITE shirt! Now, let me just tell you that this was one of her FAVORITE things she did all day -- and I'm praying as we speak that the spray-stain-remover is working in my washing machine right now!!

The girls were amazed at the HUGE size of the snow-plows...they could easily fit in the bucket of many of them.... Here is Anne Marie w/ our friend Mira.

Posing in front of a snow plow. She was very interested in this as she saw SOOOOOO many of them this past winter w/ the 1,000 feet of snow we got! (Can you tell I'm still unhappy about how much snow we got this winter??)

Then, the big kids were allowed to "play" with the big city equipment... here is our friend Parsen trying to work the huge digger-truck (or what ever you call it)

Then, they lifted our friends Morgan & Caeden in the bucket-truck. They were too excited. The city workers were great sports - they lifted the kids high (very high) and let them hang out there for a long (LONG) time!! Anne Marie was a little too small (and scared) to do either of these things, so we just watched in "awe"

Then, we went on a "family hay ride" --- where you might ask....

(REALLY --- ASK ME!!).................

Around the city grounds....what did we see you ask??

Well, we saw trash trucks, the water-treatment plant, the sewage plant.. (ugh, I swear I smelled something!!!!) And all the recycled parts that they keep on grounds.

FINALLY...... the "piece de resistance"......what do you think the girls might be admiring??? Please... again.... ask me!!!......

How a Potty Works!!! WhooooooHooooooooo!!!!!!

Really!! It was .... it had a potty -- and how it flows through the pipes & ends up in the "big bucket " in the end that is to simulate the city-sewer-system...and then they took them in a small trailer to show them where it goes and how they can place camera's in our local pipes under the city streets to see how the pipes are "doing". They even pulled up the street's camera right next to our street. WAYYYYYY MORE THAN I WANTED TO KNOW OR SEE!!

Ok -- so I'm being honest here -- my daughter had a GREAT time. She got to get climb a dirt pile & get dirty, get a "gift bag" w/ treats, play on huge tractors, trucks, and tires, take a hay ride, and learn how a potty works! Well -- I can only say IT WAS FREE! Haaaa!!