THE 4TH IS OVER!!!!!

My Fourth of July weekend actually started on Thursday with the arrival of my daughter and her family from Texas. Actually there were six of them. Lorri, Jeremy, Spencer, Aiddin, Angelica and Destiny. Jeremy is a career Army man Staff Sargent who arrived back from Iraq last December. On this trip he had a few firsts in him life. For dinner on Thursday we had pan pizza which Jeremy has never had and an original cheese pizza. They don't make pizza in Texas like they do here. Another first for him was the granddaddy of them all, THE SLIDER from White Castle. He made the mistake of having the night before he left for home. My daughter who also had them said they made many stops along the way because of them.
To get back to the weekend. On Friday we went to my camper where we spent the day and night, returning to my home late Saturday.
It's Lorri's belief that the 4th is not the 4th without seeing a parade. On the 4th after all the scrambling around we got to the Merrillville, IN parade where all had a good time and Lorri was satisfied. From there we went to my daughter Julie's house for a BBQ and the celebration of my and her daughter, Delaney's, birthday. After the traditional singing of Happy Birthday, do we have to pay royalties to someone for doing that?, we went outside for fireworks. Julies neighbor had a cannon in his yard and when that thing went off, the whole neighborhood shook. As the night progressed the fireworks became more and more and louder and louder. This went on far into the night. I must mention that Lorri stopped in Missouri at a place called Boomland. Many of you might have been there yourself. It's on I57 just over the Illinois line. I can't begin to describe what they bought but it was alot. She said her husband was like a kid in a candy store. So with the combination of Julie's neighbor and Lorri's fireworks it went on for hours. It's a good thing everyone on the block was invited to the parties.
Around midnight our party broke up because Lorri and her family were leaving the next morning, but Julie said her neighbors party was still going at 3a.m along with the fireworks.
The next morning my son, Kevin took us out for breakfast and after that we came back to my house where everyone said their goodbye's and Lorri was on her way back to Texas at 12p.m leaving Angelica and Spencer with me for a couple of weeks at which time I will take them back to Texas