Making me really happy I have realized is not that hard. Last night Kevin suggested we go for a walk to the park near our house. As we were walking we heard tons of emergency vehicles racing toward the back of the valley we will live. It seemed like a lot of cars, but we didn't think about it too much. As we were making our way home I heard one of them coming back out of the valley with sirens and lights going. I assumed it was an ambulence and made Kevin stop for a minute to watch it go by. Well, instead it was a fire truck and it pulled into the parking lot right of the park right by us. We watched the firemen get out of the truck not really in a hurry and go over to talk to a soccer team. (The weird part was that these firemen looked more prepared to go mountain climbing than to fight a fire...they had all the climbing gear attached to their belt). After a minute the soccer team started clearing all their stuff off the field.
As we were walking by Kevin tried to listen in to their scanner to find out what was going on. He knows I am always curious what is going on and convinced me to stay and watch. They cleared the field and directed a helicopter in to land on the field. It came right over our heads and landed, the firemen hopped in and then it took off. I was so excited because I have never been this close to a helicopter before and have never seen one take off. It was so cool! We watched the helicopter fly all over the mountain line surrounding the valley with their spotlight. Another watcher came and told us that a couple were hiking and had gotten lost and couldn't make their way down. The wife happened to be 6 months pregnant so they didn't want to leave her up on the mountain all night. I read this morning that they were found and it took firemen, with the family, four and a half hours to hike down from where they were. (The helicopter ended up not being able to get them because of cloud cover). While this may seem simple to most, I was super excited to be that close to a helicopter and watch it all happen. I guess it is the simple things in life!
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