Helllloooo Billings!

One of our rare 100% perfect attendance stops is to the Billings Fire Department.  We have sooooooooo much fun here.  They really know how to make us feel welcome.  We have stayed in the station for all of our vists, eaten with them, rode with them.  They have taken up collections, and filled our tanks as well as our spirits.  They are always great with ideas to do a fun photo op, and are superior at helping us make outside contacts when we need help.

This is the home of the Stunt Bear.  They came up with the the idea of shooting our mascot out of a potato gun a couple of years ago ... I vetoed that motion, since it was highly likely that the mascot and all of its bling would not survive intact.  How to accommodate their enthusiasm and our need to protect the mascot?  A Stunt Bear.

And so they got to shoot the bear out of the potato gun ... 3 times!  The lil gal didn't fair too poorly, and luckily there were on duty medics to bandage her up.

We now have Rookie to take the flack, while Chief looks good.  But we had to decide what to do with Stunt Bear.  Didn't take long ... Stunt Bear is home ... at Billings Fire Department!  She has plenty of adventures and photos to prove every story, and they seemed very happy to have her.

We had more photo ops this time, and Rookie learned about heights after "someone" punted him off the Rims. 

Billings PD came out to play, and play we did.  Officer Becker was indoctrinated into the silliness of a morale stop when we decided it was time to let Kelly see what kind of fun we like to have ... So we had her arrested!  (Kathy, too!)  Note to us:  Next time notify the Montana Women's Prison, so they don't have a stroke when their cameras catch two women in handcuffs trying to thumb rides from passing truckers!  hehe

Before we knew it, our time here had come and gone ... Too soon.  We always have a part of BFD with us, though.  Chief Staley and all of our BFD Heroes are in our hearts ... A huge salute from HeroToHero.US!

lj & the road crew