Independence Day!

Every Friday we head to our historical downtown to an event that Emma longs for each week. She calls it "The Dancing Tent!" That my friends is basically what it is. It is a huge tent and bands come each Friday to perform for FREE! Yes, folks for FREE! They definitely make money there though because beer is $5. That is the only downfall of the weekly event! It is really so much fun and the children are so fun to watch. Not only are the children fun to watch but you see all sorts of folks downtown.

There are 2 older couples, cute as can be, that get down and boogie EVERY single week. They seriously bust a move. They move better than I could ever imagine at their age. It is so hysterical to watch. Brian and I are pretty sure they smoked a good bit of weed in their day! Who knows, they may still smoke a good bit of weed!

Then there are the hula hoopers! Which my daughter is becoming a part of. Man I never in my life seen gals rock out a hula hoop they way they do! They are somehow able to get that hoop going crazy off of every single part of their bodies! This has been Emma's favorite part of her dancing tent experience this year. Some kind woman brings a ton of hula hoops and lays them out for the little kids, big kids, and old kids! Emma runs over there and grabs her hula hoop and hangs on to it for dear life for her time down there. She has not yet conquered the waist hooping but definitely has the neck thing DOWN!

Moving along, after we do the whole dancing tent thing we end our evening getting ice cream and we sit outside so we can watch all walks of life passing by us. We also usually enjoy the "Fiddling Brothers!" To our disappointment they were not there tonight. Instead we got to listen to this funny kid singing while play his little guitar. By the way, this is very common downtown for people to be out singing, playing instruments, juggling, you name it you basically will see it downtown! Anyhow, what made this kid funny was the fact that he sang about the passer byes. He making fun of them! I just hoped and prayed that when I walked by he didn't sing about me! Thank goodness he didn't! Whew!

We see it all downtown. It is a VERY liberal community! I sometimes wonder how I got to be here exactly.... I am very glad I am here and part of this community though!

So many walks of life and coming from a very small community I am so fortunate that my daughter is growing up seeing that not everyone lives the way we do, not everyone dresses like we do, nor do they have the same beliefs.

I write this in honor of our nations independence! Happy Fourth of July!