Fourth of July

A quick post to put up pictures from the Fourth of July.

Vital info:

1. My parents came in for the Fourth and the rest of the week/weekend, which makes it really feel like a holiday.
2. We went to a parade on the Fourth and they certainly do things differently up here: minutemen, colonial militia, kids in tri-corner hats shooting water guns, fife and drum bands.
3. This parade only had one "shooting" in it, but it was right in front of us and it took Nicholas a long time to uncover his ears afterwards and even longer before he would come back up to the curb to watch close up.  In fact, the only thing that convinced him to move closer was that the other kids were all getting candy that had been thrown.
4. Speaking of the thrown candy, it took him until the very last float of the parade to be willing to go in the street to get it--such a rules kid.

From 2012 July

From 2012 July

From 2012 July