4th of July Memories

If you look closely you can almost see that she is smiling.
After reading Jodi's post about memories of the 4th of July I'm afraid I only have embarrassing moments to share. Since my dad grew up in Chile, he truly sees what a great place we live in making him very patriotic. He made a nice big flag pole to put in our front yard and decided to start a tradition of having a flag ceremony each year. He would put our big fat speakers in the front windows and blast patriotic music for the whole neighborhood to hear. This might not be so bad if it was at a decent hour of the day but no, he decided to do it at around 7:00am when most people would like to be sleeping in on our day off. He played that for a while until he got a big enough crowd at the house then they had some people talk and a prayer and the flag ceremony. Then by the time it was done, around 8:30am there was a table that had all sorts of food to eat. Breakfast foods would be nice to eat but no, we would have chips, crackers, candy, cookies and nothing but the best to drink at 8:30 in the morning would be some soda pop. It makes my stomach churn just thinking about it. Then after that we had an obstacle course that would make us run around the house doing all sorts of stuff like a potato sack hop, finding the coin in the flour and also running around the block. If you won, you would win nothing but...more candy. There was a part of us that loved it, but another part that just cringes with embarrassment. My dad will always be remembered because of it. People will always say that they loved it so now I guess my dad is a legend in that neighborhood. We made certain that when we moved to the place they are in now that we didn't continue with it. Another tradition is to go to the Stadium of Fire and sit by the cougar and watch the fire works since they are free. We show up after that traffic has slowed down and are usually able to park really close and leave right when they are done avoiding all traffic. We sit out there and talk and the kids will play on the cougar and just have fun. If you ever want to find my family on the 4th, that's where they always are.
As for Brett, he says that they always went up to Jackson Hole for the car show and would watch the fireworks up there.