Our fourth...

Every Fourth of July there is a parade held here so we decided to go. 

This is the street before the parade started. Chris went to work out around 6am that morning & he said there were already chairs lined up and down the streets. It was packed!

The Beehive Bug

Men with bagpipes...they were good!

 The Broulim's race car....pretty sweet!

Chris' mission presidents company..Doug Andrus Trucking.

A local gymnastics place. This was a pretty cool float. It was a semi truck with a trampoline like bed. The gymnasts were doing flipsvwhile the truck was driving.

If you look closely, the girls in the front are standing on horses. Each girl has two horses, with one foot on each. Now that is talent!

Local car wash place called Ray's had a really fun one. They had all the workers dress up and do the "greased lighting" dance to the song down the street.

This is before Chris got some pretty sweet new shades. But there we are, sportin' the red. (I made Chris wear it...he wanted to wear South African colors haha)

Afterwards we went to Porter Park where they had "a day in the park." A ton of local vendors had booths and were selling food, drinks, crafts, etc. It was really fun. We got some really good panchi (pretty much like chicken chow mein) from this Chinese place and some kettle corn. We came home, Chris watched a movie...I took a nap, we ate dinner, we both took a  nap then headed to Nature Park to watch the fireworks.

We got there at 9, the show was after the rodeo at 9:30. We set up our chairs, grabbed some blankets and waited for the magic to start. 10:00 rolls around...nothing. I thought I read it wrong, that the show was at 10:30 not 9:30....well, 10:30 rolls around....still nothing. 11:00 finally got here and there was nothing...not even a sign that the show would be starting soon. We packed up our things and headed home. We were exhausted & not about to wait another two hours to see if anything happened. 

Overall, it was a great Fourth of July....the only thing that could of made it better would have been the fireworks.