4th of July Celebration

We had a great 4th of July. The holiday started out early. It is my job to head to the parade route before 6 in the morning to secure the same"Dempsey" spot that the family has enjoyed for the last 20 years. Which mean I usually get up around 5 in the morning. This time my mom decided to join me. We got to our spot early, threw out all the chairs, ropes and blankets on the spot and then went and parked the car. We set up the spot and then sat an talked for three hours until everyone started showing up and the parade started....

In years past. after the parade, we would head to my mom's house and have a pool party but since we are selling her house we had to make other arrangements. Mike and Debbie were nice to host an afternoon barbecue for those who wanted to attend. Tim and I decided to instead head down to the lakefront for a nice bike ride. Parked the car along Lake Drive and headed north along the lake shore. We ended in Shorewood at Atwater Park, one of the parks overlooking Lake Michigan. Beautiful. As we headed back we stopped at Bradford Beach. For those of you who have not been down there in a long time. It has been redone. Several people including Miller Brewery have donated a lot of money to clean up the beach and pay for life guards and volleyball equipment etc. When we were there, a live band was playing and many people were on the beach enjoying the holiday.

At night we met my brother Mike and his wife Debbie at Elm Grove Park for some really nice fireworks. Hope everyone had a nice 4th of July.