From the Erfurth's.......... They had our city fireworks here last Saturday night. It was really neat. No waiting around, no waiting to get out with parking, no sitting there all day long to "hold our spot". We are not used to this. In Madison at Rhythm and Booms, you must head out in the late morning, park and find somewhere that is even within a couple of miles, walk, and stake your spot out to make sure nobody else "gets a better view than you". We pulled our vehicle in a parking lot of a bank, put a blanket on the hill and sat right outside our vehicle. When the show was over, we loaded the kids in the car and went right home. No traffic, no sitting in lines. AHHHh!! It was so great.
For the fourth of July, Kim is coming down to visit. She will get here on Weds and then leave on Sunday. It will be nice. Little does she know.. we may have to ask her to babysit while Chris and I go out for a much needed night out together. It will be nice not to have to shovel food down and request they put a rush on it just so we get it before the kids get fussy and it is time to go. We have had a lot "take home dinners" from restaurants lately. They have another parade here on Friday and a big fireworks show on the fourth so we might do that. Saturday is farmers market so I may take Kim to that to check it out. Des Moines is pretty much back to normal with the flooding so we can check out Farmers market again. We are so tired of all this rain and hail. Our SUV is so beat up from Hail that we dont report it anymore because we are afraid our insurance will drop us.
To all of you.. Have a safe and happy fourth of July. We wish we could be there, but know we will have a good time with the kids here.