Independence Day Activities

We saw some fireworks last night at Hudson Mills Metropark (near Dexter.) We had never been there before but decided to give them a try. The line of cars into the park was about 1 mile long, and we inched along for a while before we finally made it into the park. We didn't know where to go, so we followed the crowd.

We were sitting on blankets, with everyone in the area all facing across a large field in the same directly. We joked with some other people that we hoped they knew where they were going, because we didn't. Must have been everyone was a rookie in our area, because no one seemed to know where the fireworks were.

When they started going off, ninety degrees to the right of where we were sitting, everyone shifted around and faced them. But there were a lot of trees nearby, so most people moved to a different spot, and there were long lines of people stretched out that could see between various groups of trees. There were large areas with no one in them, and then clumps of people in a row.

Because it took us so long to get into the park, we were dreading the inevitable nightmare of being stuck there for another hour getting out, but we were pleasantly surprised by the traffic control, and we were out of the park in less than ten minutes.

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This morning we went to the Ann Arbor 4th of July parade, which was fun. We sat with some friends and watched all the local groups and politicians go by. The kids collected bags of candy, which was thrown to the crowd by almost every group. This was a good thing because I needed a snack, so I raided M and K's bag for something to tide me over until lunch.

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The boys spent last week at Camp Birkett. They were only there for day camp. A bus took them there from one of the Ann Arbor elementary schools, so we didn't have to drive them all the way there and back. They had a lot of fun, and we spent some longer-than-usual dinnertimes listening to their stories. M swam in the lake every day, even the days that were kind of cold, and was honored by his counselor as the camper who swam in any weather.

K was in a group with a friend from school, Julia, and they got to do arts and crafts, archery, and all the other summer camp activities. K told us about the card games he learned, then he asked me if I could teach him how to play poker. I am going to think the best of the YMCA camp and assume there weren't any backroom poker games going on during day camp, but I told K it was too complicated to learn in a day. He's good at games, though, and I could see him coming home with a pile of his fellow campers' money.

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I'm working on a special present for K for his birthday, which is in a few weeks. I'll post a picture of it after he's gotten it.

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Happy 4th!

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