The Dam Visit

Since N got the job, Zoe and I have wanted to see where he works.  I'm almost positive that Zoe thinks he works at the Arena where we pick him up every Thursday.  She has no concept that it's far away. 

That was until this weekend.  We decided to visit N on his turf.  We spent the night in the trailer with him and headed out to the dam early the next morning.  Apparently in the world of dams, this isn't called a dam.  It's called a project.  You can't make as many jokes about a "project." 

Zoe saw the letters on the side of the project and she started to spell it out.  I told her to pose in front of it and this is what I got.

Then I convinced N that I needed a picture with him and Zoe in front of the dam project. 

He showed us the power house and some big thing they're working on that apparently funnels water that makes power.  All I heard was big and turns and funnels.  I was too shocked by the size of this round turbine thing that wasn't in the hold where the water was. 

I was also slightly distracted because in the power house they have a drinking fountain that is exactly the size of a three year old.  She thought that was the coolest thing EVER!  She took no less than 1,000 shots of water off that fountain.  N and I got the privilege of watching every single one.

After I got my lesson on Dam 101 and Zoe's thirst was taken care of, we headed to the salmon viewing room.  Since we were on vacation, I had to take a picture of Zoe and N outside the room with their fish faces. 

Zoe didn't quite understand that this wasn't like Coco's tank.  These fish are swimming upstream.  They are doing the swim of their life.  She didn't care.  When they wouldn't come, she would pound her fist on the frame and say, "come. here. fish!"  Like they could hear here, they would come.

Sometimes little:

Sometimes huge!  These windows are 4 feet long by 3 feet high. 

It was the perfect start to our vacation.  Tomorrow, more of our road trip adventure.