Bureau of Land Management Field Trip

We went on a great field trip to the BLM. The kids had a blast. Nick really enjoyed it until Smokey showed up, then it was all downhill. Seems Nick still doesn't like costume characters.



Before Smokey, the kids got to learn about fire safety, and hear the story of Smokey The Bear.



They got to meet Smokey, I couldn't get a picture of Nick with him though, since Nick was hiding on the other side of the room, as far away as he could get. At least he wasn't the only kid there scared to death of Smokey.


Our group photo. We just barely got Nick in the picture, he's hiding behind our friend over on the side far, far from Smokey. It looks like she's blocking him, but that's just because he was trying to figure out how to hide behind her. Crazy kid.

The kids got to crawl through the truck. Nick enjoyed that. They also had a chance to shoot the hose, which Nick would have done, except it had a stale, kind of citrusy smell to it, and it made him start dry heaving, so he ended up hiding from that too. I think it would've been okay if he hadn't already been so worked up about Smokey.

All in all though, he says he had a lot of fun, so that's all that counts.