Spontaneous Field Trip

What started out as just your ordinary day (gym, lunch, pick up kids, snack, check out Oprah)... turned into really GREAT when my extra-cool neighbor poked her head in after school and asked if we wanted to go see the Flight for Life helicopter at the hospital up the street. She had a connection who told her that the helicopter was grounded today so they'd be able to show it to her and her kids (and me and mine, as we tagged along).

It was so cool.

Paramedic DJ and Pilot Rick were there to answer all the kids' (and the adults') endless questions:

Can you fly over the ocean?

What if you're carrying someone really heavy, how long can it stay in the air?

How do you get someone in there? (it was pretty tight quarters)

What are all those buttons? (oxygen, blood pressure, heart rate, etc.)

Where does the patient's carbon dioxide go?

Do you carry transplants? (No.)

Is the pilot medically trained also? (No.)

Have you ever landed on I-70? (lots of times.)

Did you work that avalanche a couple years ago? (Yes, but we also have avalanche rescue and a snow dog.)

Needless to say, it was a really FUN afternoon and a really interesting discussion. The kids had GREAT questions and we learned a lot about the flight team!

Thanks to Heather and the Flight to Life guys!!