We never had this happen before!!

We were inside our apartment this afternoon doing the regular late afternoon routine. I was tired of the girls being on the computer, so when I heard voices outside at the playground, I tried to encouraged them to go play with their friends. Sure, I noticed there was a firetruck parked in front of the playground, but I didn't think anything of it.

But suddenly, the Fire Chief saw me standing on my balcony (because I was watching to make sure Ruby got down to the playground safely) and he says:

"Don't worry ma'am this is just an exercise. We're practicing."

And I yell back to him from my balcony:

"Okay, that's great."

And then I gave him a friendly wave. Mostly I was so happy because Ruby had run outside to play in the real world, instead of on the computer.

But then, I see him talk to his partner for a moment and suddenly he's yelling at me again saying,:

"Actually ma'am, can we land the bucket on your balcony?"

And I yell back without even a moments pause,

"Oh sure!"

Like we do this every afternoon at 4:25pm.

So before I could even realize what was happening, the firetruck bucket was swinging up in the air coming over to our balcony. And George even quicker, ran inside to put his shoes on. The idea had already occurred to him that he might be going for a ride in that bucket!



Because he's George, so OF COURSE he was about to go for a ride in the firetruck bucket off of our third story balcony!









And then when he landed, he was the biggest playground celebrity you have ever seen, at 4:35pm on a Thursday.

It was actually really awesome. I'm not sure who was smiling more, me or him! It was by far the funniest thing that has happened to us while living in an apartment in Korea.