Sarnia event: Touch a Truck 2018

All parents look for local activities to keep their children entertained for at least a few minutes, homeschool parents love local events that are fun, interactive and of course cheap. 

Touch the truck at the Lambton Mall in Sarnia had been boasting for weeks to be a fun and engaging event where kids could touch the trucks of their childhood dreams. Blaine can't get enough of trucks and I fingered it was going to be an awesome event.

I was thoroughly disappointed. For most parents it would have been great there was face painting, balloon animals, fire trucks, a hydro truck, a city bus, a Zamboni, a tractor, a tow truck, 3 bounce houses, a rock climber, a princess, the toys r us giraffe, a few food vendors and a few free items for the kids to take home. Was it a great fun time, yes and the price was awesome $5.00 and it went to the rebound program! Here is my issue they made it seem like there was going to be dump trucks and other construction trucks, where wasn't any. The line to get in was an hour long, thank goodness for the rain those made of sugar left and made the line shorter. Blaine wanted nothing to do with those trucks and such because he has seen and been in them all when we do the firehouse with homeschool group. He loved the bounce houses, the free sunglasses hydro was giving out were adult sized, not made for children :(.

All in all, yes he had a good time playing in the bounce houses, but we were looking forward to construction trucks. I would love to see it happen again with more activities for the children.
Such as:
Firefighters fully dressed
Dump Trucks
Police Car
Back Hoes
Front Loaders
Construction signs
Construction workers
Sand area with toys

and so much more the ideas are endless with an event such as this. 

Please don't get my wrong I am grateful for groups that put these events on for fundraisers for community groups but I feel more planning needs to go into them. 

Did you go to touch a truck? Did you and your children enjoy it?