We were up at 6:00am and off to Provo to see their Freedom Festival Parade...pretty impressive with 105 entries including great bands, floats, balloon characters, horses, etc. Dad and I got good seats and had fun taking a ton of photos, and the weather wasn't too hot. Then we strolled around the booths...tons of people and hard to navigate. We went 5 blocks west to the Farmer's Market to see Autumn & Leslie & David's booth of hand-made items and eat a tasty lunch of barbacoa tacos, etc. Afterwards we went to see Airie and Abram and their new condo. It's a big step up from the "garage apartment"--roomy (it will look roomier when the moving boxes are unpacked) and in very nice shape with fresh paint and moldings and lots of other amenities. Next we drove home and prepared for the BBQ hamburgers and trimmings on the deck with the Stansbury Barkers...including raspberry picking and running through the sprinkler for Brie and up-the-hill-down-the-hill walking with Colby. At 9:45pm we attempted to see fireworks at Lagoon (which they didn't do,) but we were able to catch the show at Oakridge Country Club. By 11:00pm, Donette and kids were headed home while Baron, Dad and I decided to tackle our first "Night Caching!" We drove up Emigration Canyon to a trail head and set out on a mile-long hike in the dark with headlamps and flashlights looking for bits of reflective tape to guide us to the cache. Fun, fun, fun. We were following along a stream, which we crossed twice in muted moonlight as we heard coyotes howling in the distance. We found the cache around 1:15am, trekked back, headed off to Stansbury Park to deposit Baron and finally got to bed around 4:00am. Wow! what a way to celebrate the 4th of July!! (Luckily we could sleep in until 10:00am the next day.
Minutemen with the 4-gun salute
Antique Fire Truck
A personal favorite...twirling shrooms!
The field is white already to harvest.
Drummers
Llamas sporting red, white and blue!
World War II Tank
Dino Float!
Teddy in a hot air balloon basket.
Fancy Horsey.
Eagle Balloon
Check out the hats.
Awesome Tiger...our favorite Big Balloon.
Dalmation & Clown & 3-Wheel-Mobile
Go Cougars...we hope.
Y-Mountain and the Bell Tower.
3-passenger motorcycle?
Shiny Tubas.
Onion Days...surely Dad's favorite.
Giant Paddington Bear
Immigrants on tall ships coming to America...reminded us of Albert Dock in Liverpool.
Another ship...Capt. Jack Sparrow's Black Pearl.
Bagpipes #1
Bagpipes #2
Bagpipe Major!
Off with their heads!
Patriotic Ponytail.
Mom & Autumn at the Farmer's Market
The booth.
The frame I purchased...custom made by Autumn with my choice of beads.
A&A happy to be moving into their new condo.
Brie and Froggy.
Grandma & Colby walking up and down the hill.
Blowing the twirly.
Patriotic Raspberry jello.
Cream Cheese Flag with salsa, olives and grated cheddar.
Fireworks #1.
Fireworks #2--Heart.
Fireworks #3--Starburst.
Fireworks #4--Finale!
Baron & Mom with headlamps at the Night Walk to Remember cache...1:15am.
Dad with the double reflective tapes marking the final location.
Wonton Cache'n finds the cache in the trunk of a huge "double tree" in the Pinecrest area of Emigration Canyon. Fitting finale to the 2009 4th of July.
2 comments:
You ran them off their feet. :) Thanks for the visit. :)
I love the parade pictures! Awesome firework pics. I didn't even try cuz I knew they wouldn't turn out. Laur caught mine and Brie's favorite firework...the heart!!! Fun times!!!
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