Bryce and Caleb went to Norfolk on June 25, to help set up the firework tent and run it for the season. Abby and Emmy also went for a couple days to help and to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa. Robb and I jokingly called it firework camp. It was great! The kids went away for the week, they got to see their cousins, Aunt and grandparents, they learned work ethic, it was free and they got paid to do it. It was a win win as far as we were concerned. I did feel a little guilty that this was the first full week that Bryce could drive on his own and we made Bob manage all of that. Bryce did say that driving in Norfolk did make him a little more comfortable with driving overall. Caleb, Abby and Emmy worked the morning shift and Bryce worked the afternoon shift. Bryce again was responsible for coming up with the daily deals and staffing. Caleb was the selling king! The owner of Fly By Night Fireworks, tried to steal Caleb away from Ginger on numerous occasions. Andie (girl Andie) came again this year to work the tent too. Brook was more preoccupied with her boyfriend this year, so the girls stayed with Bob and Susie along with Andie. Abby and Andie spent all their free time on the mule, driving it around the property until they had made a visible trail. Andie also managed to positively impact Emmy's music choices and after the week at the firework tent, she decided Journey was her favorite band. It sure beats some of her other choices. Abby was in charge of making the signs and she also had keychains, cups, koozies and coasters that she sold at the tent. The boys stayed in Norfolk for the entire time that the tent ran, and the girls would go back and forth when Bob made trips to Lincoln.
Caleb's best quote of the season. "Hurry and find that firework, drunk people have a short attention span for me to make this sale." He's not wrong. I'm pretty sure he loaded up $700+ in some drunk guy's pickup that definitely wasn't even worth $700.
Andie convinced Emmy and Abby that they wanted to go to a tractor pull. They asked me to take them but I didn't want to so they asked Grandpa and he was too nice to say no.
Cruising on the mule.
Not only did we make Bob supervise Bryce his first week driving by himself, we also tasked him with taking Caleb to Madison to drive for his driving test to get his license. He had tried at Wilber a couple times and his nerves got the best of him both times. We decided that maybe a new person and a new town would provide that fresh start. It paid off and Bob and Caleb got his license. Whew! We have 2 drivers in the family. Watch out!
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