Day 203 - Wednesday July 4, 2012

This morning  about 8:40 we headed to the church for the annual 4th of July breakfast.  Dave's boys stayed home with Tyler and went fishing.  Mark was cooking at the breakfast as usual.  Arrianne sang the national anthem for the second year in a row.  Jaiden and Stephany cruised around talking.  Bridgett and I talked to a few people. After about an hour Bridgett had been out enough and we headed home for something to eat (they didn't serve gluten free pancakes there!).  Scott, Jaclyn and Weston came out in the afternoon and everyone enjoyed boating, tubing, and wake boarding.  Bridgett had been down to the lake once but didn't want to put her feet in.  Also she rode with Mark when he put the boat in.  However, today she had no desire to go to the lake at all, so she and I stayed inside.  We usually go out in the boat and watch fireworks here on Swan Lake.  All day long Bridgett said she wanted to go and do that as long as it wasn't too loud.  I kept thinking about it and it is very loud.  Sound really travels on water and it usually echos quite a bit with the loud explosions.  By evening Dave's family was shot and wanted to head to bed; Scott's family had left earlier because Weston was so worn out.  Mark and I talked about it and we decided to just stay and watch the fireworks from the deck, however the mosquitoes were out in full force so we stayed inside and watched.  We still have an excellent view of the fireworks, so it was fine.  It ended up that it was a good decision to just stay inside--once we get out there on the boat in the dark we have to stay until everyone leaves for safety sake.  After only about 10 minutes of fireworks Bridgett said that she wanted to go lay in bed and read--she was done!  So all good.