Take Your Child to Work Day

We're going to go a little out of order, skipping Prague for the moment, and tell you about Take Your Child to Work Day at the Consulate.  For those who are not familiar, the US Consulate basically serves as an Embassy, mainly to the Palestinians since the Israelis can use the Embassy in Tel Aviv.  Folks can come and apply for visas to the US, and American citizens have services too, such as reporting stolen passports or registering a birth abroad.  Of course there are also diplomatic and security aspects too (ahem, you SHOULD know about that last part by now, right?). Click on the link to learn more!

Take Your Child to Work Day was a three hour event where the boys got to create "passports," do radio checks, suit up in Marine gear and run an obstacle course, and explore armored vehicles and play with their sirens.  They even got badges and had to take an oath of office.  It was a really fun day!  Take a look!

Sam kept looking at his badge and saying, "It's Sammy!"

The Marine Det. Commander had to help Sam with the helmet.

It was heavy!

 I helped Sam with the obstacle course, 

but he simply would NOT be deterred.

 Liam conducting a radio check

 Kitted up and loving it!

 Liam's turn for the course

Checking out one of the armored vehicles

Sam sounding the siren in the armored car