Monday, September 1, 2008

Too close for comfort

Well, it started out a boring weekend and we didn't really have plans, but we found a few things to do and we had a great time!
Today, we rounded the corner to our house and saw flames/smoke at the end of the street. No fire trucks, just one family watching the fire. We pulled over to talk with them and they had called 911, but it took forever (like 10 minutes) for the trucks to arrive. My first thought was maybe we should go back and start getting stuff out of our house, but the neighbors assured us the fire department would get it out quickly. There's a walking/biking trail across from us and that's where the brush fire was, directly across from the park and it was going pretty good and making a lot of noise. We dropped the car and walked down to get a few pic's and thankfully, the fire department put it out quickly. But, YIKES!!!!
This morning, we went to ride on the Niles Canyon Railway train. They were doing a special steam train today for the holiday, so that was really cool. We were greeted all along the way by people taking pictures. It was about an hour and fifteen minute ride through the canyon and they both did great. We, of course, forgot our camera, but Reggie had his, so we were able to take some pictures. The quality isn't so good, but at least it is something:

Sunday afternoon we went to the water park, but it wasn't toddler time, so all the water was spraying and the kids were a little hesitant. Finally, right before we left, Reggie started going down the slide. Ryan was happy to witness it :o). Ryan also went down the "big" slide:

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