FireFest

After the rain stopped on Saturday, Melissa, Jamie, Violet and I headed out to the Independence Event Center for FireFest - an annual event featuring historical fire trucks, fire truck rides, water displays and kid's games.

This was a charitable event so the décor was somewhat lacking but creative.

The Harry S Truman Independence '76 Fire Company puts on the event to raise money to preserve the history of the fire service in the community.

I bought a book title "Maxwell The Firehouse Mouse" written by Michael S Cangelosi (a Fire Captain with the Independence Fire Department) and illustrated by Sam M Cangelosi (a former Hallmark Card artist). It's a soft cover book so I'll to give it to Violet when she's a bit older.

Violet had fun spraying the water from the fire extinguisher. She's so smart. It doesn't take her long to figure out something and then do it on her own. She's holding down the lever to shoot out the water. Jamie's holding the end of the hose so Violet doesn't spray anything but the house.

Then we thought Violet wanted a fire hat but later found out what she really wanted was just the sticker.

I bought raffle tickets for an antique fire truck pedal car but no one called so I guess I didn't win.