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Our 4th was a busy one. Chantelle's 4-H group entered a float into the parade in Wakefield, MA. Each float is judged too and her group won 1st prize in the small float division.

My daughter is the person holding the banner clsest to us with her head turned away.

Stupid balloon/toy cart guy in in the background behind the float so you can't really see it. There were a million of those people around driving me nuts. They got in the way of so many shots.

We got to the leaders house at 9:30 to dewcorate the float and we were almost done at 12:30, but I hadto leave because my hubby was complaining that he was hungrey (he was at home calling me on my Nextel constantly).

So we headed home to eat, then we had to meet up with the rest of the 4-H group at where the floats were to be judged and where the parade starts. I drop Chantelle off there with the assistant leader and I went in search of parking so that Matt and I could see the parade.

 We had 2 hours to blow until the parade started, so we walked around the commons and down Main street. Matt has had a cough for a few days and he was coughing alot so I stopped at cvs and got him some cough strips. He loves them and they worked great. He got bored eventually and I bought him some snaps to occupy his time. I also got him this stuffed toy dog on a stick leash that he was "walking" around everyone.

A very bored boy. He was running around in circles when I snapped this one. Once the parade started he was ok though.

At least until it started to rain. We at least had a huge tree to cover us from most of the rain. But it was windy and all the drops from the leaves were making us more wet. At least it wasn't really hot out. We actually were getting cold.

I snapped some more pictures of the parade that Matt wanted me too. One was a "LIzzy" car. If you saw the movie "Cars" you would know what I am talking about. I got a few of this awsome large float of a pirate ship that had a sea monster (well I think it was an alligator because it was a Peter Pan themed float) that one "pirate" was beating up.

Well once the parade was over (around 7pm) We decided to get some food before the fireworks started. My hubby called to say that her just heard on the news that a huge thunder cell was heading our way and that there will be downpours in an hour and a half, which of course is about the time the fireworks were to start. Sureenough, the sky opened up at around 8:30pm

So we grabed some food on our way home and Chantelle went to a friends house where they have the perfect view of the fireworks in Boston and one other town near by. Matt and I went up to my room and we were able to see fireworks from 5 towns not to mention plenty of neighborhood fireworks. One of the neighborhood displays was right outsite the window that is at the foot of my bed. So I was able to lay on my bed proped up to watch it. It was pretty good for a low budget show. LOL.

At 10pm, I turned on the tv and watched the Boston Pops perform (I grew up going to the fireworks in Boston every year) and to watch the fireworks. They have the best show in the US and I am not just being partial because I am from Massachusetts, they really do. They have every firework timed perfectly with music. They were playing the theme to The Pirates of the Carribean movie and just watchign the fireworks they used for it made me feel like a battle was going on.

So that is how my 4th went. Not to bad, but not the way I wanted to celebrate. Mother Nature didn't want to help at all. I hope everyone else had a fun time.