Midvale Harvest Fest Parade

 Every fall Midvale does a harvest festival and the parade goes right down a road at the end of our street. I had gotten up early that morning to wash and vacuum my car, get some breakfast and then Tony & I walked down the street with our chairs to find a good spot to watch the parade. Tony missed this last year because he was down at BYU studying so I was excited he got to see it this year. He doesn't care for parades much but I love them.

There Was A Parade..

Shoot, there was a parade on July 4th and I dont think I ever blogged about it. For shame. So here you go! Pictures from the parade and a little fair/carnival that we went to afterwards :)

What's this coming down the street?

Only in Utah. Omygoodness. These were kinda creepy

Little Ceasers Pizza - not creepy!

Smokey the Bear! I took this picture for Tony :) 

and Linda S. in CA too :)

Rode Tony's motorcycle from the parade just a block or two away to a car show and small festival. Here are a bunch of nice cars parked on grass...

Shoes...yesss

The police drive fancy here...

Then I found a panda! So appropriate that I was wearing a panda (&owl) on my shirt :)

Our friends Gabe, Steph and Austin were there with us (we also sat with them at the parade) but we didnt get a picture with them! Got some food to eat for lunch , walked around a bit and then parted way. It was a fun way to spend part of the 4th of July since we had to stick around town and couldn't travel. Silly holidays in the middle of the week!

Seal Beach

After Nicole & Laura left Sunday morning back to Utah and we all had checked out of the hotel , Brennen and I decided to hit up the beach for a few hours. We found Seal Beach and it was pretty nice. The weather was perfect and I enjoyed laying out on the beach for a couple hours then playing in the ocean some. Sadly we didn't see any seals but we didn't walk the whole length of the beach. We did see a Hindenburg type balloon, 2 airplanes pulling ads behind them for alcohol and some cool birds dive bombing for fish in the ocean. Found some cool shells too.

 Brennen buried my feet in the sand . Hehe!

Brennen got quite burned from Disneyland and the beach so we went to a super ghetto Walmart in Long Beach where he picked up some aloe and a hat. Meanwhile I was outside watch a parade get put together. For what? I had no idea until I asked someone next to me and he said its a huge Brazilian parade that happens every year a the tv crew was even there there to tape the event and re-broadcast it back to Brazil. Really cool! I got some neat video footage on my camera that I need to post...

 Here is poor Brennen scooping on tons of aloe for his poor burned head. Awww

Ate some Panda Express and wanted to go explore Hollywood but I think we'll save that for a different trip where I can plan it a bit better. The drive home was fairly uneventful, however I did have to call 911 about a drive that was driving really dumb , either tired or drunk and nearly ran me AND a big rig off the road. Scary. Got back to Mesa around 1130pm and we were exhausted. I drove the whole way. Cant complain though , the company was great and the weather was awesome and my car preformed well. I'm excited for the next Cali trip!