Since this was our last Fourth of July while living in Provo (yes, we are moving to Carson City, Nevada in a few weeks--surprise!--if you didn't already know) I thought that we should be sure to go to as much of the Fourth of July celebration events that we could around here. Unless Carson City has a better Fourth of July celebration than Provo, we might make the first week in July our vacation to Utah week.
Unfortunately, none of the boys wanted to go to the
balloon launch because they didn't want to get up that early. Luckily, they did want to go to the parade. I took a lot of video this year. I was too slow to catch the F-16's that flew by in formation at the very beginning of the parade. But after that were the fire trucks.
I always love the bands--they are so parade-ish. Most of the high schools in the area have their band in the parade.
Brandon and I liked this float.
The kids really liked the pipers.
Notice something at the end of the video below that will become a theme throughout the rest of my video and pictures.
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It's even more obvious in the video below. Then see how much it shows up in the rest of my pictures.
If you have never heard this amazing lady's story, check her out
here.
Buttermilk Sky thought it was hillarious to discreetly stick pine needles in my hair.
Three cheers for free hot dogs!
I guess this is what Buttermilk Sky thought of the parade.
This is the theme I was talking about--this old cowboy's hand was waving for most of the parade. At first I tried to avoid getting his hand in my pictures but after a while it became kind of endearing.
Bye bye, parade!
