i've always been pretty patriotic (one side of my family comes from myles standish, the captain of the mayflower, and the other side has a signer of the declaration of independence -- i'll chalk up my country-love to them :) but the 4th of july just makes me so proud to live in this free country. especially lately, because in the past two weeks i've visited new parts of the US that i had never been to, and because brandon and i watched a fantastic german movie about world war II, so i've been thinking more about how lucky we really are to live here.
but enough of my exposition. this was a fantastic three-and-a-half day weekend and we had a great time. on friday, my parents came out and we spent the day swimming, BBQing and hanging out (and i will admit we watched "independence day" about four times...i love that movie, as cheesy as it actually is). then we went over to the rose bowl for the "biggest fireworks show west of the mississippi"...
they actually had a bunch of drum corps from around the country perform, which was very exciting to me as an ex-band nerd. the blue devils were fantastic and reminded me of when we went to see them at RCC when i was in high school :) then all the bands played patriotic music and they kicked off the fireworks -- and i am not lying when i say it was the best fireworks show i've ever seen. and i've been to my fair share of fireworks shows, including the totally awesome disneyland fireworks they have going right now. it's amazing that i'm 23 (almost 24 :) and could go to that stadium and see displays i'd never seen before.
saturday we went to the movies. we had actually been planning to see hancock, predominantly for the reason that i saw them filming it in downtown alllll last summer (as you may remember) but i heard so many bad things about it that we vetoed that idea and saw iron man instead. i was pleasantly entertained and liked it a lot (probably because i totally love robert downey jr. and am fully rooting for his new post-rehab life), but would still like to see hancock regardless. any reviews / input are welcome.
later that day we shopped, cooked dinner together, played wii and hung out with some friends. it was lovely. today we went to church and then drove to rancho to celebrate birthday month with the fam. so fun and so relaxing...it is just great to take a break from the day-to-day. which starts again tomorrow (thanks for the reminder :( boo...). and that was our weekend.
3 comments:
you have a cool life. Especially in July. And to think you still have 24 days left. And...I am sad about the whole "Hancock" thing because I was really wanting to go and see it this weekend. Oh well. I am glad you got to see an amazing fireworks show. Because yes, you DO love the 4th. I know that to be true. (But I DO love how you explained how it is only a "notch" above Halloween...funny girl).
Yea, we heard bad Hancock reviews too. I think you guys choose wisely. I'm rooting for the post-rehab life as well.
Your bday is in just 5 days! Woohoo!
Sounds like you had a fun nice weekend. Hope life back at work has been decently pleasant.
We enjoyed your celebration of the fourth with you!!! And of course, the start of birthday month was another highlight. Here's to a wonderful month of birthday memories----
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