This year the best part of the festival was seeing old friends. It's a time to stroll the park and catch up on friendships.
The parade this year seemed shorter than in years past, by about a half hour. The music this year was okay, but not as lively as previous. The fireworks, however, were awesome. It was at least 30 minutes of fireworks. They did a great job. Matt and I have a hard time trying to estimate the number of people in attendance the night of the fireworks (7000?), it's just so cool to see that many fellow neighbors gathered in one place under the stars. It was neat to see the blankets and quilts that people brought to sit on. A real family event.
Matt enjoyed the car show/cruise-in on Sunday before church.
A couple things were disappointing about the festival, the 20/30 club apparently chose to discontinue the soap box derby; the free strawberry shortcake in the park was missing again for the 3rd year in a row; shorter parade; the festival committee decided to not elect a queen for the festival--but rather "queens" (apparently they didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings, so they made the three princesses into three queens); and our kids pretty much spent time without us this year, probably saw them once or twice each day, if even that much. But we understand from our friends that this was the same trend in their families. Bummer
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