As I mentioned in the previous post, Russell has applied for a full-time Firefighter/Paramedic job in Logan, UT. After passing the physical test on July 21, he qualified for the written test and interview. After returning home from the Morwood reunion, we unpacked, did laundry, worked for 3 days, and repacked our bags to head back up north to Logan for the interview. We made great time traveling especially with two kids. I swear it used to take like 8-9 hours to get to Logan from St. George but we made the trip in 5! We left at one o'clock or so and made it up to Logan around 6:30 or 7. We were amazed! Any way when we got to Logan we stopped at the famous Angie's and ate dinner with Russell's Uncle Paul and cousin Bryson. The food was great. Even Colby ate every bite of his spaghetti. After dinner we headed to Paul and Charlene's house where we were staying for the weekend. We watched a movie and headed to bed, tired from travelling.
The next morning (Friday July 27th), Russell headed to Bridgerland Tech at 7:00 am to take his written test. He said he thinks he did okay on the test except for one part about calculating hose lengths because he missed a vital part of that group of questions. Other than that he said it was a good test. The test lasted 2.5 hours so he came back to the Phillip's house around 10:30 to get us. We spent the rest of the day playing with my friend, Trista, and her cute little girls, Jaydee and Kaycie. Our first stop was the Willow Park Zoo:
The kids had a blast walking around seeing all of the different animals. We saw a bobcat, tortoises, bald and golden eagles, emus, elk, porcupines, raccoons, little turtles, monkeys, parrots, and a whole bunch of different birds and ducks! The kids ran from fence to fence looking at each different animal and saying how cool they were. I think the most favorite part of the zoo was the duck feeding area:
We could purchase duck food (or fish food as the sign said but we really think it is just dog food!) for 10 cents from the little machine and throw it to the ducks and watch as they ate it. We probably spent a dollar in dimes just buying food to feed the ducks. It was so much fun. Colby's favorite animals at the zoo were definitely the ducks. We would run to the fences and point in and say "DUCKIES!" He loved looking at them he didn't want to leave to see any other animal. I tried to take him over to see the big tortoise but when I wasn't looking he ran back over to the duck pond to see the ducks.
It was definitely a fun trip to the little zoo but as you can see, the kids were tired by the time we were done. All they wanted was to get drinks of water but they tried to be good sports as their crazy moms tried to get a picture of all four of them together.
After the zoo, we walked over to Willow Park which is right next to the zoo and had lunch.
Once again the kids had a blast playing on the slides and swings. Even Colby thought he was as big as his sister and climbed to the top of the jungle gym to go down the biggest slides. This boy has no fear! I did have to help him go down this big red slide though because it was a little too steep for my liking. Unfortunately I think slides used to be bigger when I was a kid because the slide was a tight fit for Colby and me to go down together but we made it out alive.
After the park, we decided we should cool off by getting some ice cream. Trista took us to the Gossner cheese factory and we not only got some yummy huckleberry ice cream, we also came home with a case of flavored milk boxes. We got every flavor imaginable: Orange cream, strawberry, chocolate, banana, cookies & cream, mango, and even root beer milk. They are all really tasty and the good thing about it is Colby can drink these without getting sick! Yeah maybe he will outgrow this milk allergy someday! All of the kids we so tired by this time that we all decided to head back home for a nap. That night we met back up with Trista and her husband and went out to eat a Firehouse Pizza. Also a very good restaurant.
On Saturday (28th) Russell had his interview with the fire department. During the interview he was also given a medical scenario test to test his paramedic skills. We waited outside in the car while he had is 20-30 minute interview so that we could head back to St. George when he finished. Russell said he felt pretty good about the whole interview and he felt very confident about the medical portion as well. So now we just wait and see if we get the job. If we do, that will be great because the pay is almost double of St. George but the bad thing is we will have to move again. If we don't get the job it will be a bummer but it was definitely a good experience testing and getting used to the way fire/medic job interviews work. So we will see.
We headed home and made good time on the way down too.
On the way home, we stopped at Wendy's to get some lunch and we couldn't resist taking a picture of Colby with his hamburger. He loved eating that thing and he looked so funny with this big hamburger in is hands eating like a grown-up! We also made one other stop in Orem for our traditional stop at Krispy Kreme doughnuts. We got a dozen of their yummy doughnuts and headed the rest of the way home. This was a fast trip but definitely a fun trip.
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