4th of July Freedom Festival

We went to the Cary Freedom Festival on the 4th of July. What a great time we had. They had good music, food and kid games, which we missed most of since our little friend took a marathon afternoon nap.

She went to town on the watermellon. I was so curious to see how much she would eat, I placed the Tupperware in front of her and let her go. She ended up eating literally about 1/5 a watermellon. Devin and I were astonished. Her belly and my belly were about the same size.

Part of the program was a Japanese political figure that talked about the aftermath of all the natural disasters they had in March. At first I thought- I understand Japan has suffered, but hello! It's America's day- why can't we get an American to talk about how great America is... I was humbled quickly when he started weeping tears of gratitude for our armed forces that have been there and are currently still there giving them aid to put together their cities again. When the whole audience stood to say the Pledge of Allegiance and sing the Star Spangled Banner, I'll admit I was also in tears. God bless the USA!
The fireworks were supposed to go off on the other side of the lake, but an hour before launch, it down poured like only the South can do. We had about 3 minutes warning (the wind started picking up as we were posing for this shot), and we RAN (as fast as one can while pushing a stroller and being 7 months pregnant) to our friends' house that was about 10 minutes away and celebrated there instead. Needless to say the fireworks were cancelled- it actually rained 4 more nights consecutively and the town of Cary finally had their fire work show 5 days later! Hello!