Yesterday was a great day! We had a ton of fun at the Family 4th of July festival here in town. Really the only thing that would have made it better is fireworks, though I understand why they couldn’t have them! But it would definitely be nice to see them added into the celebration next year.

And the reason why it would have been nice to have fireworks here? We had planned to go up to Cary and see the fireworks there. We managed to get up there, walked what felt like a million miles to find a place to sit among the many, many people there, and 20 minutes before the fireworks were supposed to start, the wind started blowing and the sky got dark. Soon there was lightning, then came thunder, then we started feeling sprinkles. We didn’t wait…packed up our chairs, blanket, stroller, kids and took off, along with the thousands of other people there. We speed-walked the million miles *back* to our car where we found out we would be going nowhere for quite some time as the traffic was miserable. We popped Nemo in the DVD player and let the kids hang out while we cooled off and dried out. Luckily we had made it back to the car before the rain started coming down too hard, but it poured down in sheets! We were disappointed in missing the fireworks but we certainly need the rain. Imagine our surprise when we realized it didn’t rain a DROP here. *sigh*

I see that the fireworks in Cary have been rescheduled for tonight but we have plans and I’m just not sure if I’m up for all of that again.