4th of July Weekend

For the 4th of July, our family usually goes down to Ephraim. We are there every other year or so for a family reunion, and this year we just went down for the fun of it. Most of the family got there on Thursday, but I got there on Friday, after work. (At least this year I didn't have to drive home and work and then go back down.) On Friday night, after Roy's Pizza, we went to Manti, which is about 7 miles south of Ephraim, and went to the parade at 7 at night. It was fun small town parade. After the kids were all asleep, we went over the Malt Shop which is across the street from Nana's house and got ice cream. On Saturday, we went to Moroni at 9:30 to watch their parade at 10:00. However, before the parade started, they had a pingpong ball drop. A plane flew over and dropped pingpong balls from the sky. We didn't really understand why, but they did and it was really fun. The parade then started at 10 and went down Main Street of Moroni. This parade was longer than the other parade and was also really fun. We then returned to Manti to their celebration for the 4th. This included Money in the Haystack, Rocket blasting, grease pole climbing and plenty of food. (If you are ever in Ephraim, either go to Roy's Pizza or The Blue Restaurant.) We drove back home and went to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner. After we did our fireworks on the street with the kids, Wendy, Brian and I went to see Holladay's firework show at 10:30 p.m. We were sitting at Zion's Bank and the fireworks were shot off right across the street from us, right by the Fire House. They were literally right over our heads. It was great and very loud!

Over the course of two days, I had 5 servings of ice cream....not like I am complaining or anything. On my way down on Friday, I stopped at the Big Red Barn in Santaquin and had Lemon Custard and Cashew Carmel for $1.86 and then Wendy and I got ice cream from Maverick with was Vanilla and Root Beer Float twist, and then that night we got shakes from the Malt Shop and I had a banana cream pie one. Mmm. On Saturday, we stopped at the Big Red Barn on the way home too. I got Lemon Custard (again) and Oreo Fudge. That night at Sweet Tomatoes, desert is ice cream. A very good vanilla and chocolate twist. I LOVE ICE CREAM!!!

Happy Fourth of July and what a great day and time to celebrate!!