Happy July 4th!!

Thursday night Ron and I kicked off the long holiday weekend by going to "Summer Pops In the Park". It was nice and relaxing listening to the music and we enjoyed it. Being a long holiday weekend, the event, which is every weekend from May-July 4th was very crowded.

Toward the end we had a group of 9 kids (college age) sit down in front of us on a blanket. No big deal, because the place was pretty packed anyway. They proceeded to have a lot of conversation among themselves. Unfortunately, they were pretty distracting. I could hear their conversation over the music. It was getting late,(for us) and we had to go by the grocery store and prepare something for a cookout the next day, so we decided to skip the fireworks and head back home.

Friday morning we had plans to met our new cycling group at a house for a ride to Waxhaw, watch the Waxhaw town parade, then ride back. The parade was fun. We even saw Sue Myrick, our N. C. Senator! And a friend that Ron and I haven't seen in years was in the parade, and is one of the town commissioners. That was a surprise!

Afterwards we had a nice cookout. We rode with this group last Sunday afternoon, and they were so nice and invited us to the ride/cookout on the 4th. They are a fun group of people who like to cycle, socialize, and EAT. They call themselves the "Bee Team". They're not a bunch of skinny, fast, furious, serious cyclist who are all about "time". You can ride your own speed (fast, med, or slow) & there is always others around to chat/ride with. Check out their website: http://www.thebeeteam.org/

I've attached one picture of the "pops in the park" and some of the parade. See Ron's chicken that he caught. He's going to start taking "Chicken" on vacation like Sally took "Superman" and Dick & Angie takes "Bibendum & Gianni ". Too bad "Chicken" missed the Italy trip! haha