The cooking part of the to do list is done. The car is loaded and after a good nights sleep I am checking in with you to wish all in the US a safe and happy 4
th of July.
Here in the mid-west the weather is finally warm enough to enjoy being outside. Those close to any of the many lakes that surround our beautiful state get as close to them as they can around the 4
th of July and those who summer up north are settled in and ready to party.
Most towns have parades where you gather up any bits of red, white and blue that you have and stick it on bikes, kids, wagons and strollers. We head downtown and wave little flags that we get at the grocery store. The parades are varied but most include veterans, town officials, kids, pet's and local politicians.
The water is usually warm enough for us to put the kids in their red, white & blue bathing suits, slather them up in sun screen, strap them into their
floaters, lead them to the water and hope that they swim. Mostly though they sit on the sandy beaches and fill their bathing suits or diapers up with sand that gets all over the place when we finally drag them in after a day at the beach.
The pictures above are from the
Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.
Hugs,
Sue
We ate way to much at Cindi's.
Just got back from Mackinac Island
with Dana and Angie
to celebrate Mother's Day.
We celebrated Taylor's First Communion.
Went to ride on Thomas The Train
with the boy's at the Henry Ford Museum
and spent time with my tree hugger friends. Isn't that tree in Mom & Dad's back yard huge???
