A Day in the Hunt House: Touch A Truck

On Saturday, July 10th, I took the kids to the big Touch A Truck event being sponsored by a local church just north of our town. It was super hot, but I knew the kids would absolutely love it, so we stocked up on water and sunscreen to see all the cool vehicles. A hot air balloon was scheduled to be there too, of which Noelle has developed an obsession for, so we had to at least stop by for a little while. There were not a lot of people there which allowed Noelle and Ty plenty of opportunities to roam around and hang out with all the cool trucks, planes, etc.

When we arrived, Noelle said, "Mom, I think we are at the wrong place!!" I asked her why and she said, "I don't see any hot air balloons, do YOU?!" No little girl, I didn't see any either..turns out the company just had the basket out for kids to go in...LAME! Everyone was interested in the balloon part, so I'm not sure why they didn't just put it up and take kids up and down (like 10 ft up) for a quick ride. Here they are confused in the basket, LOL.

They got to check out a cop car...Ty looks awfully comfortable in that back seat...not sure if that is a good sign!

The kids really liked seeing all the cool gear on the fire truck. Unfortunately, they were out of fire hats, but the kids scored some crayons, badges, stickers and mini fire hydrants.

Next on the tour was an MTD bus. We all enjoyed a little time in the wonderful air conditioning before headed out to the next stop.

Here they are on a digger...

Noelle was thrilled that she was actually going to be able to go inside a plane! Once I told her to head over in that direction, she took off in a dead run. She felt so special being able to sit in the cockpit and check it all out. Ty must've like it pretty well too because I ended up having to climb up and pull him out!

There were about 5 other planes there, but we chose to observe those at a distance since I really didn't feel like battling Ty to get out again. We even got to see one taxi down the runway!