Rain on our parade

July 4th, 2007
Today we went to the annual Clifton Park 4th of July parade. In years past we were part of the parade in the guise of "Ottos Balloon Flights" but this year the town got greedy and decided to charge $500 to participate! We opted to be spectators instead. Rode our bikes, (George cried the whole way strapped next to Charles with his big helmet on), with our neighbors the Carrs. Charles couldn't contain himself he was so excited to see the parade and collect the candy. A couple of times he was frustrated because a bigger kid got to the candy first, but he was so cute that pretty soon all the kids around us were looking out for him and of course the people throwing candy would aim for him. At the end of the parade it started to pour. We

had "fun" riding home in the rain. George fell asleep. That evening we had dinner with our friends the Renaulds. They had invited us to go boating on the Hudson but the rain cancelled that too!