An afternoon well spent

Last Wednesday on our bike ride home from the park, my son and I suddenly saw some builders about to pave a road. We quickly got off the bike, pulled out the picnic blanket and sat down by the side of the road to watch. My son could not believe his eyes: real life Bob-the-Builder(s) and the Can-Do-Crew laying asphalt and making a road! There was Roley (the steam-roller) and Bessie (the finest road-paving machine ever made from the movie Cars) and a truck which we quickly named Lasse Lastbil in Swedish (in English we could have called him Tommy Truck). It took about an hour to pave the road and we sat quietly and watched. Very interesting. It was an afternoon well spent.