July 7th

Happy 7th of July. I hope you're having as much fun as we are. Usually we'd be celebrating this stuff on the 4th, but the 4th was Wednesday, and you just can't have a parade and fireworks on a Wednesday. It's downright un-American! So it's been moved to the much more rational, if slightly untraditional, 7th. Today we've got the parade and the fireworks. The fireworks are fun, and are really the highlight of the day. The kids get to stay out really really late and ooooh and aaaaah at the show. Earlier in the day is the parade with it's floats and thrown candy and the Shriners. There are two awesome things about the Shriners. The first and most important is the network of burn hospitals throughout the country that provide free pediatric burn care to children under 18. There is no way to overstate how important and wonderful this is. The second is happy old men in go karts. I honestly don't know what I want to do more with my life, volunteer in the burn hospital in Galveston, or be a happy old man driving a go-kart in a parade. Hopefully I'll be able to do both of them in time.
Happy independence day to you all.