4th of July

The 4th of July is one of my very favorite holiday's...I just get so excited for it every year. And it's usually about a week long of pure excitement...I love singing the Patriotic songs in church on Sunday...and I love looking around and seeing flags everywhere. It's fun reading everyone's blogs that are from Rupert...and how excited people are to go back and spend the 4th there...or how sad they are that they can't be there...it really is a big deal. And this year I was feeling a little homesick for all of the Ruperts festivities...but I think it was worth missing this year--we got to celebrate it in the Nations capital...and it was AMAZING!!! We both had to work all day..and that was a huge bummer--we didnt get to have any kind of a BBQ--I did however get to see the most ghetto parade though...but the night made it all worth it. We went to DC for the fireworks show, we got there about an hour before it started--and every direction was packed with people...I don't know how many millions of people were there. They were shooting the fireworks up next to the Washington Monument...and they had the area around it blocked off until about 30 minutes before it started and we just kept walking up towards it untill we somehow ended up being about 50 feet in front of it--the fireworks were right above us and huge...the whole firework show was like the best grand finale...and then when it was time for the actual grand finale--there was so many you could barely see everything because there was so much smoke from them. It was just a neat experience to be there to spend such a special holiday with all of the patriotic Americans. I am SO thankful for the freedom we have and all of the men and women who leave their families to defend our rights.