With the sudden death of MA's grandmother, our 4th was kind of on the back burner. We usually go down and park Phil (remember Phil) at the lake to watch the big fire works show. You have to park the day before to ensure a good spot. Then we get up early eat breakfast, watch the parade, spend all day in town, have a cook out and watch the fireworks. This year, we did get up and go to the parade, but that was about all. We had to come back home to start getting ready for the visitation that evening. We didn't want the kids to miss out on ALL of the festivities....but as you will soon learn, we should have just stayed in bed.
As we got out of the van headed to watch the parade....just take a moment here to notice how the sun was not shining and that it was kind of um....grey.
So from here we hiked a little distance to the parade site, found a nice street side seat and settled in for the fun. The parade started, about 15 minutes late. As it began, the sprinkles came, but as quickly as they came they stopped. No biggie, we can handle some sprinkles. The parade lasted roughly 40 minutes, as it progressed, the rain was coming and going, until it settled in for the morning. A washing rain, a rain that came with large rain drops that plopped as they hit you. Here it would be helpful to point out that we didn't have the accompaniment of an umbrella. So we sat waiting for the parade to end so we could make our escape. Finally we were able to make a dash back to the van, not before we were touched by at least 200,000 rain drops each. There was not a dry stitch on any of us. Remember the cute dryness of the above picture....here they are as we reached the van to squish home.
notice how her previously fluffy and perky pig-tails are now droopy and wet.
See how her shirt sticks to her ever so clingy, look at her hair as it droops under the weight of the fully-clothed shower we enjoyed.
Yes, even the mighty mohawk fell to the rain.
It was a messy day, as I said, we should have stayed in the bed.
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