Morning All!
Yesterday we learned that Orange County has some mighty fine looking firefighters.
Let that sink in for a sec.
Yep, picture if you will Lori and Rick at complex pool sunning themselves (ok, mybe you don't want to picture that so much) while turkey is sunning itself in oven (big no-no I know, but 4 hrs was a long time for Lori to not go outside and enjoy day). Rick perks up ears like a puppy and says "I hear sirens". Lori says "Nah". Sirens come closer and turn into the complex! Rick says "Let's see where they go" so we stand up and watch them pull around building toward our side. Ok, nervous nellie Lori is now a bit aprehensive- could something have gone terribly wrong with the sunning turkey?!? Rick and Lori scramble to collect stuff and run to car- and I mean run! We jump in the car and go tearing around the complex parking lots- we get to the last turn before ours and Rick says "tell me it's not in front of our building". No such luck.
Right sqaure in front ouf our building sits the lovely firetruck!
Lori has the door to car open and is running before car stops and feet hit the ground. I'm not sure I ran that fast when I ran track in high school. Got to apartment before anyone noticed me and checked..........
turkey was fine, still sunning itself in the oven. Whew!!!!
But why do we have firemen unloading hoses and hooking up to the hydrant?!?
I turned off the oven(one less thing to worry about!) grabbed a soda and went to sit with everyone else from our building in the parking lot to watch the spectacle. We even got more firetrucks! All told we got 4 trucks, a ladder truck, and 2 ambulances.
The drunk idiots in the hallway next door thought it was a good idea to fry their turkey indoors.
Dumb**ses! Sometimes liquor is a bad thing- it makes naturally stupid people do incredibly stupid things!
But this will be a Thanksgiving that won't soon be forgotten, and the firemen were really nice to look at- and super friendly!
We ended up going to dinner with friends and then to Wilderness Lodge for some cocktails. I'll warm up the turkey and make all the sides today.
Thought you might like a good story. There are firetruck pictures up on Facebook.