That's Entertainment!

Lawrence is my cars and trucks man.  He loves anything with wheels (except the vacuum cleaner). 

Before we came here, Lawrence ALWAYS pointed out, in loud, enthusiastic form,  EVERY SINGLE police car, fire engine, ambulance, and school bus that we ever saw.  When we left Charlotte, I felt like we were leaving a part of him behind, because we had to say goodbye to all these vehicles that he was so aware of.  Of course, they do have a smattering of police cars and fire trucks here (no ambulances that I've seen) but they never have their sirens on and they don't look like the real thing anyway.  They are really just plain old company cars with a single blue light stuck on top. They also have buses, but they are more like Greyhound buses, even the ones for school - no more yellow school buses with the red stop sign. 

However, he does see a lot more earth-moving vehicles here.  This is because everything here is crazy and they use giant earth-moving equipment for all kinds of unnecessary things.  Like picking up grass clippings from the lawn mower (below).  While obviously a waste of resources and energy, it makes for great entertainment for a 2 1/2 year old!  (PS - happy half birthday, buddy!) 

The workers are using the front loader (? - not sure if that's right) and dump truck to pick up an armload of grass clippings.  Lawrence was SO EXCITED! 

Ten minutes later.  Yes, we are still standing here.

And yes, they still are picking up that same arm load of grass clippings.  They are (clearly) not very efficient. In fact, now that I think about it,  I could have done this faster all by myself and nine months pregnant.  Here, they have four guys on the ground, one in the front loader, and one in the dump truck. 

 

 

So at least it's not a total loss of vehicle observation.  Thanks, Caterpillar!