Tradition, Tradition!

Mark and I had about as traditional a 4th of July as we could and it was fabulous. The weird part was that it was only like 82 degrees here and then around 3:00 a big storm came in and the temperature went down to 62 degrees. Mark and I kept saying over and over how great the weather was only really weird for the 4th of July. Normally in California its 100 + degrees so this weather was a nice change. Other than the weather it was a traditional (for Mark and I) 4th of July.

We went to the Parade



Had a BBQ with friends



Made the "traditional" Fieth family Root Beer Floats



Waited for it to get dark enough for the fireworks to start
(We both ended up getting pretty chilled a first for the 4th of July)



Enjoyed a great Firework show







Does anyone else have a really hard time taking pictures of fireworks? Our timing was way off last night. Oh well.

We went over to Fort Collins to watch the firework show. There was one here in Greeley but after talking to friends who have watched it it seemed like the Fort Collins one was more practical. It was scheduled to start at 9:35, which it did where as the Greeley show was scheduled to begin after the concert was over and we had no idea when that would be. It turned out that we drove the 30 minutes to Fort Collins, waited and watched the show then drove back to Greeley getting here around 10:45 and were still able to watch the Greeley show from our balcony. It didn't start until 11:00! We are glad that we went over to see the Fort Collins display as it was better the the Greeley one.
Its always sad to me when the 4th of July is over because there are no real big holidays until Halloween. I know there is Labor Day but its not really the same as other holidays. Fortunately for us, Mark's birthday is August 09th and our anniversary is August 21st so there are some things to look forward too.