While we were in the DC area, we attended a great 4th of July parade in Takoma Park, Maryland. We missed the Monona Memorial Day parade this year because we were in Maine, so Andrew was particularly excited to eat the candy see the parade with our friends.
Grace has a friend whose parents have a home right on the parade route. They invited Grace to come and bring her friends. So she brought 10 of us: her family, our family, my brother Joe, and Heather, Michael, and Evelyn. The parade was really well stocked with politicians and performers and community groups of all sorts.
We all enjoyed spending the morning on a shady neighborhood street and watching them march by.
The color guard started it off.
And then there were oodles of local, county, state, and federal politicians in neat cars.
A lady in stilts protesting the hot topic of the parade: the elementary school was going to switch to Styrofoam plates, and most everyone was carrying signs demanding the return of a dishwasher.
Bag pippers. Uncle Joe wants to learn how to play the bagpipe.
Good buds.
Evelyn in the flag-waving spirit.
John considers eating his lollipop.
The Learners on the 4th.
Evelyn is just so stinkin’ cute I could eat her with a spoon.
Michael helps Sylvia with large chunks of watermelon.
Two girls are poooped out and manage to be sharing a common space without arguing.
My Sylv taking a rest with Poodle and Paci.
Hope your 4th of July was a great one! I’m so glad to be an American.
Thanks so much for the pictures. Evie called me that morning and asked me to come over. How I wished I could have!!!!!