4th Overview

It was kind of a weird 4th. We always spend time with family on the holidays, but didn't get to do that this year. We have been to the Sandpoint parade for many, many years, but didn't go up this year since the holiday was in the middle of the week and we didn't want to fight the traffic. For some reason, Rathdrum and Post Falls don't have 4th of July celebrations. Spirit Lake does and I thought of going to their celebration, but didn't make it in. I had little desire to go fight the crowds in Coeur d'Alene, especially in the heat. So, we went to breakfast at GW Hunters, went to Kmart and bought a lawn mower on their clearance sale, and then did some geocaching on 4th of July pass and down into to Kellogg, until the heat just got too much to bear. When we came back across the Veteran's Memorial Bridge, there was a pretty good fire going down below in the brush. We got home in time to decide where to go watch fireworks, and headed off to Silverwood. We also got to see most of Spirit Lake's show since we were facing the right direction. We had a light show before the fireworks started, with fire trucks going back and forth, and I can only imagine that their night got even worse, since there were a lot of fireworks being set off in tall fields. Silverwood did a pretty good show. Some of it was pretty low to the ground and we had trees between us and them, so we didn't get to see it all, but what we saw was pretty.