4th of July

the 4th of July was soo incredibly fun this year! the night before my bestest friend in the whole wide world spent the night at my house, and we stayed up till like, 4ish.. and then we had to wake up at like, 7 to get her home and to the parade on time. so i was functioning on 3 hours of sleep the whole day. i don't do well sleep deprived. so, we went to the parade. it was pretty good.. i guess. there were the mandatory creepy clowns, marching bands, and some freakishly sweet floats. i love parades! but this stupid little kid kept going in front of me.. and stealing all my candy. lame! oh well.. i guess i'll live.. after the parade we went to a bunch of different stores. i stayed in the car to catch some z's. we weren't shopping for me anyways. we were getting my dad some jeans. then we went to my grandmothers house.. which is so much fun! my dad decided we all needed to experience the float down the canal that he spent his childhood summers in. so there were me and 3 of my siblingsgoing down the canal in this tiny raft. mucho mucho exciting. the people that lived along the canal came out and were laughing at us. it was pretty pathetic. but then we got the rest of my cousins, some more rafts, and found a better spot to go down. we went down all afternoon. it was sooo much fun! wow. i want to do that all the time. then we had the traditional BBQ and went to fireworks. it was so awesome. we are so blessed to live in America. i doubt any other country is as freakishly fabulous as this one. we all should be extremely grateful. and proud.