Celebrating July 4th, 2007
We had a great fourth of July holiday. It started on the Saturday before when Oscar and Lily got to be in the Provo Freedom Festival’s Kid Parade. They loved it. I don’t know why we haven’t done this before. I don’t recall hearing about it in Loma Linda, however. They loved it. Here are some pictures. See the rest on Flickr.
Monday night, July 2nd we rode around town to see the farmer’s market type exhibits that were on display in downtown Provo. We rode our bikes (borrowed the neighbor’s for Marlene to ride). The kids rode in the bike trailer. It was fun. The memorable exhibit was the Crandall Historical Print Museum’s series of exhibits by the museum. Oscar and Lily had fun touching the old artifacts on display. Oscar stubbed his toe and it was bleeding so the medical staff looked at it and bandaged it up for him.
The next adventure was that I went to Loa to work for Tuesday and then came home really late on Tuesday night with the intention of leaving bright and early to arrive in Delta for the parade at 9 am. However, I didn’t wake up in time and Marlene wasn’t feeling too well. So we waited. My sister, Rachel stayed the night and we all drove down at about 10 am. I ended up driving Rachel’s car so I could do work on the way to Delta with the confidentiality that I needed since I was talking about my wilderness therapy clients and to their parents. It worked out and we went to Delta. It was fun. We played at the Main Street Park where the festivities were happening. Oscar and Lily had a good time. We then went home and the kids played in the sprinker, took naps, we bbq’d, Rachel’s friends came over, prepared for the derby and fireworks, (didn’t end up going to derby b/c kids wanted to play with grandma in the sandbox), went to and watched the fireworks, then put the kids down to bed, and lastly watched the Patriot on Turner Classic Movies. I thought it was edited but after watching it I am not so sure. The film is pretty real in its description of what happened.
Fireworks
Oscar and Lily clammered for popsicles and more popsicles throughout our visit in Delta.
We then woke up the next morning and had a good morning with the grandparents and Rachel. We got our adjustments from Dad and made our way back to Provo for the rest of the week.
Oscar and I picked up the iMac yesterday and that was pretty fun. We enjoyed the Apple store and playing with iPods and iPhones. Only one alarm went off because of us. We left and Oscar wanted to play in the sprinklers but then decided against it because he was afraid that one of the bigger kids would be mean to him. There were a lot of people there. We went to lunch and then drove home. It was fun driving him around SLC to see some of the old buildings and to see work on the new Mall’s in downtown being done. I hope that they look good when they are done.
