Honor America Days

Yesterday I went in at 8:30am to the RACC to get ready for the parade. I put on my ghost costume and then waited for others to get ready so we could go. I drove with 3 girls in my back seat to the float. When we got there we got things ready, which really consisted of waiting for things. There was a lawn that we were by and apparently nobody knew how to clean up after their dogs, there was dog crap everywhere and everyone was stepping in it. Luckily, I did not. Stacy called me in a panic because the bus hadn't come and she had to go to work, so I left to go get her. While I was finding my way around the maze that the parade had created she called again to let me know she had gotten on the bus finally. Cool, but now I have to find my way back and find a parking spot...

I got back and slowly but surely we began to move. I handed out candy to greedy children that had their hands out expecting something. Some of them were not greedy, but when they were greedy it was a mob of them. I stayed about a quarter of a mile behind the float because I was trying to hand candy out, every once in a while I had to run back up to the float. When we got to the judging stand we all grabbed a bone and did a dance. Then we went on and finished the parade, and I still trailed behind.

At the end of the parade we all got onto the float to ride back the the RACC. We were stopped because to get back we had to cross the road that the parade was still going on. They said it would take 20 minutes so some of us decided to walk. I said that I was going to just find my car and go because I figured it wasn't far, but I didn't know where exactly so I asked for directions.

I walked in a huge block and even called Matt for directions while I was walking and basically found my way back to the RACC and not to my car... So then I had to wait and help with the float until someone could give me a ride to my car. While I was waiting Lauren told me that someone had fallen off the float and had to be taken to the hospital after I had left. I wasn't there and didn't see it, but I guess it was bad. Lame, but eventually I got back to my car and luckily Stacy worked a little bit late so I was able to get her and she didn't have to take the bus.

We went home and made wontons. They were good. I think I am becoming a wonderful little house wife, and apparently I cook well. Thats good I guess, except that means I have been doing the cooking all summer.

Long day.

Total: 91 hours