4th of July

What a great 4th of July. I started mine with an 8.5 mile run that wiped out my legs. It took a while to recuperate from this one. We went to a large parade for the morning that we ended up sitting kind of in the back and had to stand often to see but was still relaxing.

We then prepared and went to the pool for a couple hours to hang with a bunch of friends. Watching the splash contest, different relays and kids play was a lot of fun. The pool closed at 4pm and we again returned home where I spent a couple hours working on that new car we just got. My brother in law came by and together we got it to running a little better yet. Enough that we were able to take it around the block and give it a little try. It is HORRBILY gutless and soon realized the turbo is not working yet. That is the next step. It should get better when that works. I am at this point just happy to see it trying to run and coming along. So far $0 has been spent on it.
At a little after 6pm we took off to a friends house and had a picnic of hamburgers, brats, salads etc. It was a good dinner and we then, all 10 of us, piled into their suburban and went to City Park for the firework show. We arrived a little later and was cut short on places to sit but found a spot and met up with other friends. We watched the fireworks sort of behind a tree and then migrated with the 1000’s of people back home. It was a good night.