Independence Day!

My favorite holiday to celebrate in White Rock is the 4th of July. Every year our church hosts a children's parade followed by a carnival, and they rock! When we were little, we'd decorate our bikes with streamers. (Oddly enough, we never used red, white, and blue streamers, but they were very festive, nonetheless.) This year, though, none of us had a bike.

So we had to use Daniel's go-cart! Penny was very excited about this idea.
I guess we decorated with enough red, white, blue, and American flags to make up for all the orange and yellow streamers of my youth.
We drove very fast. Well, we tried to. Apparently you go a bit slower when you have 2 1/2 full-sized people on board. This is okay, because we had to follow the bikes, and not everyone rode their bikes at full speed during the parade. I was so excited to be part of the parade! I hadn't been in it since Riana and I twirled our flags behind the band (the ward band, of course) freshman year in high school. Wahoo!
After the parade was the carnival. I used to do the face painting, and this year Penny got her face painted. This means that I got my shoulders painted, but that's okay. It just made me more festive.
And since we parked the go-cart with a For-Sale sign taped on it, one of the kids at the carnival came home with the ULTIMATE carnival prize. His mom bought him the go-cart! This was sort of the plot of the whole driving-the-go-cart-in-the-parade thing. Daniel has a driver's license, and go-carts aren't quite as cool when you could go drive your own car...

So, Independence Day parade: a success!