Pancakes with LAFD and Open House with LAPD

This morning, we headed to our local fire station to have pancakes with the firefighters.  This was our second visit to this station.  Last time, we went to the Open House in May and took a tour.  Today, we were able to enjoy a nice pancake breakfast and go inside each of the fire trucks.

The boys were pretty excited since we were going to be joining their friend Annabelle and her family for the walk over to the station.  When we got there, it was a packed house.  They did their best to keep the lines moving and we were able to enjoy a nice stack of flapjacks.  The firemen cooked them on a griddle that used to be an old NY fire truck.  It was really cool.  Plus, Wilshire the Fire Dog was there.  The boys each got a collectible card featuring Wilshire on it.  By the time we got home, neither still had his collectible card.  Are we sure that these two are my boys.  I would have thought that they would have already learned the importance of collectibles with me.  Oh well, live and learn.


In the afternoon, we headed over to the LAPD Wilshire Division Open House.  They had a bunch of exhibits and fun activities for the kids to do.  As soon as we parked, Nicholas looked over at the roof and saw the police helicopter.  We immediately made a beeline for that.  Nicholas hopped right in and John had to be prodded a bit.  He kept on worrying that the pilot would tell us to get out.  Once the pilot assured him it was ok, he felt better about it.

Next, we headed over to see the old police cars.  These were special cars from the Peterson Automotive Museum that had been featured on Adam-12.  John and I were really excited about that since we enjoy watching it together.  Nicholas just wanted to walk on the concrete.  There was an old police station wagon next to the cruiser that Sgt. MacDonald used to drive to investigate the situations as needed.  I immediately recognized it since it is one of my favorite all time shows.

John has often asked to go visit a police station for a tour.  Today, he got his wish.  We saw the benches were the bad guys are handcuffed and the actual jail where they hold prisoners.  It was empty for the day.  John didn't want to go in there because he was scared the bad guys would be in there.  After seeing that, he was ready to leave, but did I mention that was within the first 5-minutes of the tour?  We made it about half way through the tour before we decided that it was time to go.  Both boys were acting up and Nicholas kept saying inappropriate things at the wrong time.  That boy needs to learn to self edit himself.