It's been a crazy few weeks here in Western Wisconsin - which I'm sure you know about if you've watched the news lately. Besides summer school fun classes for Ella and finishing up my last admin. hours at our summer school here in River Falls, I had participated in both the search for a missing autistic boy in Prescott and helped out at our Elementary School after our recent tragedy here in town. So I was happy to spend the last two days celebrating this awesome town we live in and partake in some River Falls Days fun!
We started on Friday by picking up niece Katie to join us for the fun. From there we went straight down to second street for the big parade. Our parades are famous for being excruciatingly loooonnnnngggg. But there are some fantastic give aways. After a brief and concerning rain delay the parade started - one of the first floats was giving out nice reusable bags -so Katie scored a great bag for her candy finds. Apparently Ella was too slow. Besides candy we can always count on milk and cookies being handed out at the parade! One of the perks of having a cookie factory in town and many dairies close by.
On Saturday we (and by we I mean Ella and Katie) participated in the water fights at the fire dept. watched the awesome Henry family sweep the bench press competition, rode rides, ate food we shouldn't and dunk Pastor Sandy at the dunking booth. I'm proud to say I dunked her on my first throw and Katie got her twice :) The girls also got henna tattoos.
Tonight our plan is to catch the movie "Superman" and I'm hoping we get to sleep in tomorrow. We have a busy week ahead - we're packing up and heading for Denver and then the Grand Canyon. Hopefully I'll be a bit better about updating this blog and get some great trip picks on here!
Ella - are you snuggling up to that fireman?
