The 4th and the Aftermath

    The fourth of July lived up to all my expectations.  It was a busy day here on the home front and we got a lot done from finally filling the swimming pool with water, setting up a volleyball net in the backyard so we could play volleyball or badminton, to my husband putting new brakes on our truck so we could come to a stop which is an important function to have.  You can’t just run into things to stop…you have to have brakes that work.  It seemed like we were doing something at every single moment!!

    I had special plans to barbecue chicken, cook corn on the cob, and make homemade potato salad and I managed to get that done too…although it happened kind of late in the day.  While that was going on I realized I had bought absolutely nothing to blow up.  I simply couldn’t have that.  I mean…it was the 4^th of July.  It is the one
day of the whole year that it is perfectly legal to blow shit up.  So we rushed out just before dark and bought a few fireworks to set off. 



        I was in my element!!  I was out there in my lawn chair with my camera in the dark focusing on the sky.  My camera has this “firework” setting that I had never tried before and last night was my chance to test it out.  I figured out in a big hurry it was like a time release drug.  You pressed the button…and then you waited crossing your fingers and your toes that you actually captured the burst of color before it disappeared from the night sky.  I honestly took more pictures last night than I did at Christmas!!

      All in all it was a holiday for the record books followed by a day of running about everywhere.  We went to the mall, Toys R Us, and Wal-Mart and did the look around.  We even hit my favorite store which is Barnes and Nobles.

        After all that looking about, we finished off the evening at the Golden Corral eating literally everything in sight!!  The best part was that they had cotton candy.  I thought I had literally died and went to heaven!!  I just know in my heaven they will have wall to wall cotton candy.  They even had a chocolate fondue fountain!!  My family dipped everything from strawberries to watermelon in that glorious chocolate and my son, to my disgust was marinated in chocolate in every available orifice when he was through.  I ordered my husband to the men’s room to hose him down and clean him up.  My husband wasn’t happy about doing it, but my son is 7 and had no intention of stepping into the ladies room.

      Speaking of clean up, I discovered the wildest thing in the toilet.  Actually it freaked me out a little.  I went and did my business and then after washing my hands hit the button to turn on the hand dryer.  Holy Shit!!  It was like unleashing a mini tornado with 100 mph winds.  It literally shook the skin on my hands!!!!  I felt a little better when it did the same to my daughter.  At least then I knew it wasn’t moving my skin in ripples because it was old and saggy baggy.  I thought that crazy thing was going to blow my skin off.  All in all it was an awesome day and I managed a blog after all.  Day 5 of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is in the books!!