4th of July

Last night I got my hair stuck in a fan. Long story.

Anyway, today is the Fourth of July. YAAAAY AMERICA!!!!!!!!!

At about 11:00 a. m, we went to this random neighborhood fourth-of-July party at the park, where kids ran around screaming and devouring hot dogs, brownies, cookies, watermelons and chips. There were a lot of dogs in wearing interesting patriotic attire, like this one:

More pictures of random stuff other than the dog can be found here.

As part of the fourth-of-July party, the fireman-people (I guess?) brought their fire trucks to the park and let kids play around in them. Nora insisted that I come with her into one, so I did. Then I unintentionally took a picture of myself while trying to take a picture of some random reflective part of the truck.

 

We also walked past this row of fancy old cars that was there for some reason, and my dad was beaming at them like they were the most beautiful things he had ever set eyes upon.

Then Dad, Nora and I rode our bikes to Dad's friend Andy's house, where he and Andy and Andy's wife blabbered on about their lives. While they did that, Nora and I went outside to their backyard where we took turns pushing one another on a homemade swing that hangs from a tree. It started out as just a civilized session of swinging, but eventually turned into a wild rampage of hurling the swing into the air and jumping off it while screaming random names of plants into the air, like, "CACTUS GERANIUM CORN!!!!!!!".

We kept injuring ourselves, and soon it kind of turned into a contest of who could get the most injuries. Nora and I were about tied until she smashed into the tree and shaved the skin off of both of her kneecaps, turning them a bright crimson red. We decided that that made her the winner.

Halfway through the day, I heard my mom having a random conversation on the phone with someone that went something like: "Ahh, gross!" and "Where did you buy it?
Turns out my grandma bought a watermelon that was apparently rotten on the inside.

Then, later, we went to see the fireworks! Yaaaaaaaaaaay! I saw some that were shaped like smiley faces and some that were shaped like fireworks. They were very colorful and firework-ey, and they exploded. Yeah. And I ate a blueberry pie in the shape of the American Flag. It was yummy.