4th of July

We were at Bear Lake for the 4th of July holiday this year.  My parents were gracious enough to let us use a few days of their time share before they came up to use it at our family reunion.  The place was really nice - if only the beds were more comfortable I'd probably want to live there.  We went to church on the 3rd at the local LDS chapel and there were probably 800 people there for sacrament meeting!  I guess they had one or two other sacrament meetings that day with similar numbers.

We heard about a 4th of July chuckwagon breakfast in Paris, ID and decided to try that out.  I've never seen a longer food line!  We turned around and drove the 25 minutes back to Garden City where we just about 8 minutes too late for breakfast.  (Can't you keep serving breakfast for a few minutes past 10:00???)  So breakfast was corn dogs and a raspberry shake.  We drove back up to Paris for the parade and the kids got lots of candy and plastic necklaces.  They were pretty satisfied.  Then I think we got another shake.

We sat on the balcony of the condo and watched fireworks over the lake, in the distance, and up on the adjacent hill.  It was pretty great and the girls didn't seem to miss our usual family fireworks too much.  It was a fun Independence day - getting to be in a new place and experience different things.  I think adventure is good for me sometimes!