Fire Station #2

Since I have been here in Berkeley, I have adopted a fire station! One day I was walking home from working out at the Y and the ambulance drove by and then parked a little ways up the road! I stood there in a dilemna...do I just stand here and stare, do I walk on home, do I go talk to the what seemed to be good looking firemen that just drove by...oh dear what do I do! Ah ha! It hit me...I need a station to take goodies to and this is a perfect opportunity to find a close fire station! Little did I know the ambulance parked right in front of the fire station it belonged to! So as I walked up to the ambulance I realized, Oh there is the station...so now what do I ask? So I introduced myself and told them what I wanted to do! They told me this was the station I needed to bring goodies to and shift C was the shift I had now adopted! They also told me when I come by to bring 3 dice so I could play Liar's dice game with them! I asked what is that and they just said you will have to come and learn! So I left now knowing where my station was! A few days later I made some dessert enchiladas and took it to the station, unfortunately all but like 3 were out on runs! So I gave them the dessert and one of them invited me to come back for dinner with them! Oh how cool! I already had plans that evening and so I declined but later in the evening I thought as a way of accepting the invitation but still declining I would stop by on my way to my other engagement and say thank you and maybe next time! So I stopped by and they said some other time would be fine!

Well since then, I have taken dessert maybe 3 or 4 times and I have had dinner twice with them! I have learned to play liar's dice game...it is still a bit fuzzy to me but i think i could teach others! One night they invited me to stick around and watch a movie with them. So we ate dessert and watched Iron Man!

One day I stopped by to pick up my pans and chatted with them and I ended up getting a ride on the great big truck! I rode kinda in the Tiller Box which is the box at the end of the huge truck and it actually has a stering wheel so it can steer the wheel underneath it! They have to steer back there because the truck is so long without it they would never make the turns in the city!

The guys at the station have been wonderful! They are so nice and are very funny! They have been awesome at trying to understand what I mean by sacred dance...don't get me wrong they still make fun of me but hey, what can you do?!!