With the arrival of Summer, it was time for our town to celebrate with Summerfest 2012. Although there are lots of things to do including a small parade, vendors, and a few carnival rides and such, our family's favourite event takes place on Friday night outside the fire station. In the past, they have had cart races where the carts were propelled by the water shooting out of the hoses, this year however, was different and perhaps even more fun. The aim of the game was to blast a yellow ball that hung in the middle of a wire, from two sides. Two teams of fire fighters competed to propel the ball to the opposite side of the wire and whoever moved the ball to the opposite end of the wire from where they were standing was the winner.
Amelia was a little shy at first and hid behind her pet pig, a gift that her English cousin Hannah gave to her a couple of years ago.
The firefighters huddled together before taking their places on opposite sides...
and then...blast off, each team fired water at the yellow ball, it really is amazing to see the power of those hoses, and it was so interesting to watch the fire brigade supporting each other and working together.
Amelia soon warmed up and enjoyed watching the competition.
Now look at the photo below, is it cheating for one team to distract the other by blasting the leading firefighter instead of the ball? Nah, it just added more excitement and giggles from the crowd.
After a while our girl got down from the wall and decided to get a front row seat on the curb.
We got quite wet, she loved it!
Before long she was cheering and asking the firefighters to blast the water in our direction.
We had a wonderful evening, the weather was perfect and we even enjoyed a hot dog and can of pop from the fire station. It's times like these that I really enjoy living in a small town. It was nice to be out in the sun, laughing together and seeing many of our friends out doing the same thing too, we really do have a great community!
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Wow - looks like lots of fun. I guess we missed that event when we lived there. We could sure use some of that cool water spray down here - we're sizzling!
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