Who is Billy Booksie? We don't know either but apparently he is an integral part of a local literacy promotion. The main drawcard of this event to M was that some of the teens she knows from homeschooling groups would be reading. of course, being homeschoolers ourselves we didn't end up leaving the house early enough to catch them. In our defense it seemed ridiculous to force her to stop what she was doing to go and listen to someone read aloud when what she was doing was in fact reading aloud...

 Anyway, we managed to catch the very end which was at the fire station much to A's delight. Our friendly fire fellow demonstrated some of the equipment. I must say I'm quite reassured we are in good hands should we need them. As the blurry pictures attest; this guy is fast!

 Captivation.

 Of course the obligatory sitting in the truck photo. We actually got to look inside a bushfire truck as well and he was happy to answer M's questions about the differences. After looking in every nook and cranny of both fire trucks we headed back to the local bookshop to add to our collection...

 What is an outing on a freezing wet day without hot chocolates?