With all of Fresno a buzz with the news of Extreme Home Makeover in town , we thought we'd join in the community excitement and take a trip down to see the house in production. Really not a big deal for us considering our good friends, Darren and Carolyn live only 2 streets over from the house being built. So off we trekked for a Sunday afternoon walk to see what we could see, with plans to go back to their house for dinner.
Excuse the horrible picture quality - I just liked being able to show what a nice afternoon it was and a fun walk for the kids.
This unfortunately is as close as we could get...
Apparently, due to the high number of people parking nearby and walking in to spectate, the people in charge of the production, in order to maintain better crowd control, were only allowing spectators if you rode the shuttle into the production area. Shuttles for convenience were being offered for free downtown at the convention center. From what we were told by the police at the end of the street where the house is, there was at least a 2 hour wait to board the shuttle. Big bummer for us that it didn't matter that Darren and Carolyn live only 2 streets over, we were still told that we would have to go downtown, just to come back. Pretty silly, but yet understandable for keeping better control of the production and crowds. Needless to say, we didn't think it worth it to drive downtown just to wait to come back! The walk at least wasn't a waste since it was a glorious late afternoon and the kids got to see a fire truck!
We did catch this tiny view of the house being framed on one street over. If you look through the trees you can barely see it. We might try to catch a glimpse of the house after it's all down and yes it was a disappointment they wouldn't let us down the street to see the work in progress, but at least we had a great visit with Darren and Carolyn.
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