The Adventures of Team PM: AETE Family Day

Yesterday AETE hosted family day in their hangar on base. (AETE: Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment is where Peter works). They started out the day with a pancake breakfast and had all kinds of things planned for kids. Also, there were helicopter rides running all day for immediate family members. My flight was scheduled for 4:40 pm, but something went wrong with the helicopter around 3:30, so I never did make it up - I guess I'll have to wait until next year! Either way, we had lots of fun, mostly Ainsley who most of the activities were geared towards : )

Here she is in the kids play area.

Heading to the slide - military style ; ) Ainsley was not super excited about this slide ... it was a bit long for her to go down by herself; I was at the bottom to catch her, but she was still pretty uncertain about the whole thing. Two rides down was enough for her!

Peter took Ainsley in the bouncy castle ... another activity she was not too sure about! The funniest thing was that they had to wear socks inside the castle .. neither of them had socks on, but there was a basket of clean socks for people to use just outside the castle. Well, I came back from the washroom and saw Peter putting these enormous socks on Ainsley and just cracked up!! They looked so funny on her, and Peter looked so funny trying to get them on!! Little did he know that she had a pair of tiny socks in the diaper bag ; )

I took Ainsley on a little ride in a very tiny fire truck. As you can see, I was a little large for it, which is why my head is bent in that weird way! We just didn't think she would have liked going on her own ... even though there were seatbelts.

Ainsley was also lucky enough to have her face painted! When we walked over to the table to have it done, Peter said to the girl 'Want a challenge?' She just smiled and I'm sure she was thinking, 'Oh, it can't be that bad'; well, it wasn't actually, but Ainsley did jerk her head a few times ... it still turned out pretty good!

Ainsley & I also got to go and sit in the F-18. That was very exciting for her ... there were lots of buttons and gadgets to look at and push : )

Finally, we were able to go up and see where Peter's desk is in 'cubicle jungle' as he calls is. And, lucky us - Peter showed us the 'messiest desk in NATO'!! Ha ha ... and no, it wasn't his!