We were too busy to take pictures yesterday, so a written account will have to do!

I realized that, just like I loved to watch t.v. when I visited my Grandma, these two equate watching Netflix with visiting Nana and Bumba, so I didn’t fight it. They spent a while in the a.m., after they had breakfast, watching their favorite shows while I cleaned up and did laundry and Bumpa worked on fixing things around here some more. It was really weird for him to not be preparing for the fund raiser at The Garage for the first time in 15 years. At about 10:30, we got in the car and drove over to Roselawn Elementary, where Chloe and Josiah had a blast playing on the wide array of playground equipment. Unlike the previous day at the beach park, Josiah did NOT come to me after 10 minutes to say, “I’m done. Let’s go to the next park!” I guess he understood that Chetek only has a couple parks.

We then went home before someone parked for the parade in our driveway, and watched another show before we ate grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for lunch. Then, a bit before 12:00, we heard the planes flying over, so we quickly got outside to watch the parade. We walked 1/2 block east to the intersection of Knapp and Second, which has to be the best place in town to watch, because it is right in front of the announcer’s table and they keep you quite entertained. Normally I don’t care that much for the parade, but they actually made it enjoyable. And the kids finally got into the swing of running out and grabbing candy. They started out a bit too hesitant about whether it was permissible, so missed out on some. Josiah would dash out ahead of everyone, but only take one in each hand, and run back, doing a happy dance that he’d scored some more. It never seemed to occur to him to grab more than two pieces!  Chloe was the proud recipient of a flyswatter (she hates bugs) and Josiah got a rubber bracelet. But Josiah also caught one of the few tee-shirts they were throwing, so that was a big win for him! It will be a Chetek memory, since it is for the Hydroflites ski show for 2015.

When the parade was over, we came home for naps. Bumpa and Nana slept, but Chloe and Josiah didn’t, although they stayed in bed the entire hour and a half until the music c.d. was over. They then went to The Garage with Bumpa to find some things and, mostly, play video games until I arrived with the car packed for the afternoon in the country.

We brought a long clothesline to tie Sherlock on, so we wouldn’t have to keep looking for him. Josiah enjoyed playing with him quite a lot of the time we were there. I tilled and weeded the garden and Bumpa worked on getting a good fire ready for cooking supper and the kids went from here to there and everywhere in the beautiful outdoors. For supper, we cooked hot dogs over a fire that was still a smidgen too hot and ate in the trailer. We played some more outside, discovered we DID NOT have any marshmallows left to cook, put out the fire and headed back to Chetek.

The fireworks started about 9:45 and we just walked over to the north side of First National Bank and sat in the grass there and had a great view of the show, with no one else around to hear our effusive comments about them – it was perfect! Then home to bed.

It was a great day. We couldn’t live in a better place to enjoy Liberty Fest!!