Day 185: Hapyy 4th of July!

The morning started off with the parade in Minonk and Steven and Mathew driving tractors. I was lame and didn't think to take pictures..actually I did think to take them but I was busy taking care of Bailey and didn't have a second hand to get a quick picture. Yes, we took Bailey to the parade and she actually did quite good. There was a little Chihuahua dog that the owner kept letting go crazy but Bailey didn't do her normal "attack" type thing, just got really anxious and hyper about it. She thought the flying candy were toys she was supposed to catch but she figured it out soon enough that she couldn't eat it anyway and gave up. The only thing she didn't like in the parade were the drums in the marching band..she tried to run in the street, started barking like crazy and everything..weird. I felt like a "dog mom"--had my bag of treats, water, leash, toys, etc. oh my! 

After the parade we made our way to a 60th birthday/4th of July celebration! This was not your typical 60th birthday celebration! It was full of games such as: frying pan toss, hay bale rolling, cane sticking, nail driving, yawning (who yawns the biggest), CRAZY FAST bingo!, blindfold chocolate eating, clothes to dress up for pictures--it was a GREAT afternoon! We saw Fireworks last Friday at the baseball game and we didn't feel like driving back into Peoria and getting stuck for several hours trying to get home, so we just stayed home and didn't go see Fireworks anywhere.