the helicopter

          last saturday was work party day.  I love the place my hummer works...they are a great company to work for.

They gave us (and by us I mean us and Hummer's family--who were here celebrating his gradiation) free hats, and free food, free sunscreen--it was fantastic and fantastically hot.

Hummer won us a helicopter ride, and we ate barbeque tri-tip sandwiches and fruit salad and all the popsicles we wanted.

There was a greased pig race for kids (and no, the pig seen above was not one of those pigs), and they tied money to a bunch of sheep's fur and let the kids run wild on them.  They eventually backed the sheep into a corner and then ripped the money off their backs.  The poor sheep...

The helicopter ride was fun but it gave me such a headache (ie the headphones you wear so you can hear the captain and other people around you without suffering from high-decibel hearing loss (it is so loud in the cabin) squished my head, also free-falling twice did a number on those tri-tip sandwiches in my gut).