4th of July Weekend!
For Christmas this past year, my parents didn't want any presents, instead they wanted a "vacation package" to each of our hometowns. We choose for them to spend 4th of July with us checking out classic cars and watching small town parades. We have one of the biggest car shows on the west coast right here in our town. More than 30,000 people come from all over to check out these 1000 prestigious cars!
My dad and Kevin scoping out the goods. My dad said he has never seen so many old cars in mint condition.
Hailey wasn't feeling great this weekend, so grandma packed her around most of the time
This mustang was definitely in our top 4 cars! Here were my top 4: a clean black '67 Chevelle, a baby blue classic '55 Chevy Pickup, a red '64 Nova Wagon and this beautiful souped up '67 mustang
After the car show we headed to the next town over to catch a small town (but lots of people) parade. An hour of sirens, candy throwing and water spraying.We ran home quick and packed up a picnic to eat while we waited for it to start
Every time a firetruck or any float came by spraying water, Scott would hide behind me! What a stinker! He would yell "Throw candy over here" at every float. Needless to say we ended up with way too much candy!
Hailey showing off her patriotism.
Cache Valley does fireworks the night before, and no traditional parade on the 4th of July all because of these classic cars. On the night of the 4th of July they have a "Cruisin Parade" where all the cars from the car show drag main street for about an hour. Once it gets going there ends up being 4 lanes of beautiful classic cars. It is soooo awesome! To me there is a huge patriotic feel when 30,000 people get together to listen to all these cars roar it up- so cool!
My parents were laughing because people had their chairs and blankets out Friday and the car parade wasn't until Saturday night.
Every time a car with a loaded engine would cruise by, Kevin would yell, "Rev it up!" and pretty much every time we would here the engine scream. Pretty soon, Scott along with all the older boys sitting next to us were yelling "Rev it up!" to every car cruisin by. It was pretty funny.
After the car parade we came back home for some small fireworks
Hailey was really scared with the fireworks, so Grandpa took her inside to watch through the window. Hailey adores her grandpa! (She loves grandma too, but she's just a daddy's girl type) :)
After the kids went to bed my mom made carmel popcorn and we watched a movie. We had such an awesome weekend! Thanks mom and dad for coming to vacation with us!