Fun on the 4th

We had a good time on the 4th, lack of sleep notwithstanding. We kicked it off by waiting in front of the post office for a good hour before the parade started. Then, the children ran like fiendish beings after all that candy. Really, who cares about firetrucks, marching bands and floats - lets just have some random people walking down a cordoned off street throwing out bags and bags of candy to waiting children; it's like Halloween without the work. No dressing up in sweet outfits, walking to all sorts of doors and knocking trying to look oh so cute. No, on the 4th, you just stand there and they bring the candy to you! How cool is that? Really, too much fun. Thank you founding fathers for creating such a fabulous holiday!

I also found in interesting that in Oregon we have to watch streams of combines driving past us. Here, it was a 4x4 group and a bunch of mining equipment. In defense of the mining equipment, they were much cooler to watch then the combines.




I did manage to snap a photo of Lulu (on the right) and my niece watching from the sidelines. It's not much but I think it's sweet and I can share.

After this, we all just hung out at the neighbor's BBQ. It was a fun and mellow forth. Yea! Just what I needed after all the activity of the last few days.