This past weekend was the 4th of July. It was a wet and wild weekend as we experienced some major downpours on Friday evening, all day Saturday and then Sunday evening. But the rain did not damper or keep us from having fun. We still managed to go watch some fireworks, grill out and do some of our own fireworks. :)
Friday night after church we ventured over to the Expo center and prepared to watch the fireworks. It is apparently the last year for Shawnee to do fireworks for budget reasons. Throughout the entire show it rained lightly and made for an interesting experience.
Saturday was pretty much a washout due to the extreme rains that were dumped on our area in the range of 3 inches. The kids played outside and splashed in the puddles and then we ventured to Oklahoma City and dined at On The Border; our favorite Mexican restaurant. After we had our bellies full, we then drove over to POPS on Route 66 and enjoyed some cold beverages. We then headed home to head for bed.
Sunday, we went to church and then afterwards we grilled outside before the rains came. We grilled hamburgers, hotdogs, shrimp and veggie k-bobs. We enjoyed an indoors picnic, as our neighbor was outside mowing and made for a not so pleasant time to enjoy our food outdoors.
After eating we loaded up and went and got some of our own fireworks...the silent kind as it is illegal to pop fireworks in the city limits. We got some sparklers, smoke balls and black/colored snakes. We enjoyed lighting them and then once we were done the heaven's opened up once again and dumped more rain on our soaked lawn....mowing will be fun later this week.
We then lounged around indoors and watched the movie Enchanted. It was pretty good.
We then lounged around indoors and watched the movie Enchanted. It was pretty good.
All in all, we had a wonderful weekend and didn't allow the weather to rain on our parade.
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