My 4th of July

So yesterday was pretty much awesome.

I could not sleep the night before yesterday I was excited for my birthday and I started to think about friends, my mind was loud and it was hot in my room. I only got 3 and a half hours the night of my birthday it was insane. I fell asleep around 2:30am and had to wake up at 5:50am to get ready to go to the hot air balloon launch.

The hot air balloon launch is an annual thing we do over here on the 4th of July. It is basicly what it sounds like, we just go watch a bunch of awesome Hot Air Balloons inflate and rise into the sky. It is a lot of fun and every year hundreds of people go. They also have a police fundraiser every year where you can buy breakfast in order to help the police, the breakfast is pretty good.  We didn't do that this year though because we are all a little strapped for cash.

It was actually pretty cloudy in the morning we weren't sure if it would rain. The balloons ended up inflating and then deflating right after because the wind currents were too strong for them to be safe.  It was still awesome though to watch them inflate.  We were late to the balloon launch anyway so because of the complications we got to see the balloons. Usually if we were as late as we were they would have already been in the sky. The balloons usually launch around 6:30am, and we go there around 7am.

My dad made egg and cheese breakfast burritos in the morning right after we woke up to get ready. I was going to have him make waffles but the burritos were great as well.

We went in 2 cars when we left. I went with my sister and her husband and my nephew Jax. Everyone else went in the other car. One of the reasons why we were so late is because Justin's car wouldn't start. We had to wait 10 minutes before we could try again, it worked the 2nd time though.

After the balloons and everything that happened in the morning we walked a couple of blocks to where the parade route was. Our relatives saved a big space in front of where they live and we sat with them near the beginning of the parade route.  We got there an hour early so I just played on my phone, and ready my book while I was waiting. I took a photo as well.



I didn’t really watch the parade, just mainly talked with my relatives, and read my book a little. About half way through I started playing with my camera a little more and took some pictures of myself for fun. My mind was caught inbetween daydreaming and thinking of what I wanted to do afterward. The parade and balloons were not my idea, they were something I just let my family do every year. I really hate parades, not to fond of big crowds as some of you know, and the balloons are cool but I don’t like going for the same reason as parades. I wasn’t really paying attention to anything around me at the time, I texted Sam a few times, but he was busy.

This is some random photo I took of myself while I was there.

The parade was okay but I was glad to get away from the crowds. We left right when it ended, I was glad because they start shooting off the cannon at the end, i hate cannons, to loud for me. I’m not sure my nephiew would have liked it either, it would have scared him a lot.  

We walked back to our cars, it was a semi-long walk back and it was getting hotter because the clouds were moving away.  I don’t mind heat as much as my other family members, but it was nice to get away from the sun and into the shade finally after a while.  My nephiew began to be more energetic again once we got into the air conditioned car again.  

On our way back home we stopped at Smiths, Justin (my brother in law) needed to get some allergy medicine, I went in with him because I wanted to find some silver nail polish I used t wear, i couldn’t find it though. We started to leave the store but decided to go into the Sally’s Beauty Supply right next door to Smith’s. My sister and I went in this time. Justin just stayed in the car with Jax.  Linda and I bought my hair dye, and a few things of nail polish. The color of hair dye I picked is lighter and more red than the last one I used.

When we got home we decided that we would do my hair right then, before we had our picnic up the canyon.

My sister dyed my hair, I left it in for about 40 minutes or so and then we washed it out. When we wash my red dye out when we dye it it looks kind of like  horror show haha.  I brushed and blowdryed my hair after leaving it in a towel for about 10 minutes. When I saw my hair dryed for the first time with it’s new color I loved it a lot, I still love it a lot and so did everyone else. Red seems to be my perfect color, it matches me well and goes good with my skin tone.  

Various people were watching Star Trek The Next Generation around my house, we didn’t do anything for a while after this.

We decided to go up the canyon and find some place to have a KFC lunch. My parents had bought some while they were on the way back to the parade. We drove up the beautiful canyon and my mom and dad brought us to this really random place up a short trail. It had a couple picnic tables but it was mostly empty. We all pretty much protested at this spot because it had tons of bugs, didn’t look very pretty, and the ground was uneven. We all pretty much decided that we would move to another loacation. We did not know where we were going.

We drove up to another random place at Sundance and started looking for a picnic table. We walked around this place at Sundance, I don’t know what it was but we were all feeling pretty irritated by then from searching for a place to just have a picnic lunch.

After walking through a park a little, we found this little grassy area in front of a little hotel. I think it was a hotel anyway. We just sat down and ate. It took a few minutes for the tntion that we had built up to dissappear from the air. We all became a lot more relaxed once we sat down and ate. I took a few pictures here as well.

After we ate we just packed up, and waited for a shuttle to take us to our car that we had parked a ways up. My dad decided that he would go and that we would just stand in front of the place near to where the shuttle came.  We just stood there for a few minutes and talked about various things.

After a few minutes my dad came with the car and we went home.  

We were pretty much scattered around the house for a few hours just playing games, watching movies and TV and just hanging out. I spent a few hours just watching anime, and a few movies, and playing on my phone. I was pretty worn out from all the stuff that had been happening.  

We eventually got together and said happy birthday to me and ate the cheesecake.

I went back downstairs ate my cake while watching a Harry Potter movie. I was down there for a little bit and fell asleep. I’m not sure how much I slept but I was woken up by my sister. She told me that we were setting off the fireworks. I just wanted to sleep and almost fell asleep again but I somehow dragged myself out of my bed, grabbed my glowsticks and went outside.  I was feeling really irritated for a few minutes and I just wanted to sleep. It passed though.

We could tell it was going to probably rain soon so we tried to set off as many as we could. Pretty soon it started to rain, but other people in the neighborhood started setting of their fireworks. This year is the first year they have let us use the kind of fireworks that shoot up into the air, we could see various fireworks shoot up into the sky and we could hear some others that were just on the ground. I don’t know how they managed to light them but it was still pretty awesome!

We just watched the neighbors fireworks for a while, a lot of people were shooting them off. I got out my glow sticks and started snapping them so they lit up. I gave some to my family members. i had quite a few glow sticks.

It stopped raining, it wasn’t raining hard or anything, that is how we still managed to watch the neighbors fireworks.  We tried to light some more fireworks of our own after the rain stopped but the wind started to pick up and it wouldn’t let us light the fuse. We tried about 8 different times and managed to light ONE!

We could tell the other neighbors were probably having this same problem because the fireworks started to die down a lot. We went back inside after this.

I listened to some music and read some posts on Xanga for a while and then crashed and went to sleep. I was SO tired.

It was a great day. :)

More random picture, mostly of me.

I forgot about the mascara under my eyes so that is why it looks like I have dark circles. ><