My 4th of July weekend summary

We had a most excellent fourth. We had some people over and a bbq. The food was good the company was excellent.

The men were playing poker by the time dark came. We had some options for our fireworks viewing pleasure. We could drive downtown to see the show, we could walk to the beach near my house and perhaps see the show from there, or we could sit in the backyard and listen to the show. We opted for the walk to the beach near my house.

It was dark, and there aren't any street lights. I hooked us up with a few flashlights and we were off. Lily insisted on coming even though it was past her bedtime and she was already pretty cranky. People were fearful of walking that far with a cranky little one. They all thought I was going to have to carry her. I don't carry Lily. Jeff and the other boys decided to continue to play poker and not see any fireworks.

Lily opted to run the entire way there to the beach. I had trouble keeping up with her. I kept having to ask her to stop and wait for the others (and for me to catch my breath). We got to the beach and it was a wonderful view of all the fireworks shows that were happening in our area. We could see two differnent towns and several casinos shows. All in the distance with another show right there at the beach where we were. Lily doesn't really like noise, but she survivied. I had a most excellent time. We walked back home and by then from the sultry night we were all soaked with sweat. I was impressed with how well Lily behaved.

The boys finished up their poker and everyone went home around 11PM. I usually join them in the poker but this time I wanted to visit with the ladies. It is weird that none of the other ladies like poker. I love beating them. Not long ago we played in a tournament and had proffessional poker players (people who have played at the cassinos). And I took out two of them in one had. It was great. Jeff ended up winning the tournament but I paved the way for him.

Saturday we (Jeff, Lily and I) were bored by 5PM. We had spent the day hanging out. Our house is clean, our yard is mowed, we spent all our money on having our house painted, buying a new car and buying a security system for the house. What to do. Jeff wanted to go out to dinner. I thought it might be more prudent to walk across the big new bridge (2 miles). We decided to do the walk, it was still pretty warm when we went at 5PM. The bridge is an enormous hill up and down. Lily and Jeff jogged for awhile. I walked. They waited for me. On the way back Lily was very hot and cranky. She no longer wanted to walk.

First we sat down and watched all the boats for awhile, then we tried to get her to walk again. She was not happy. Then she got this great idea to walk backwards. So I walked backwards with her. She laughed and smiled, no longer cranky. We held hands and tried to jog backwards. It was hillarious. Jeff took off and walked quite a ways in front of us. Poor Jeff, he is not the backwards walking type of person. Some of the people we backwards almost walked into were shitty and didn't move over for us. I guess we were backward walking on the wrong side of the walking path. People actually tripped over Lily, I would shimmy behind her real fast so they would hit me and not her. Jeff was shaking his head. At least Lily didn't whine the rest of the way instead she was giggling and having a good time. I don't know how Jeff puts up with us.