Today is the Fourth of July and I am not at all excited about celebrating. I started the day with my morning walk along Great Bay and nearly ran into my old manager, someone I despise. Luckily he did not see me and I shot past him quickly. I did text my cousin to let him know what I saw. It took the rest of the walk to calm back down.
Around 10am we headed over to Eva’s friend Max’s house so that we could park in his yard and walk down to the Science School so Eva could link up with the staff there to be a part of the parade. Allison, Andy and I walked around Woods Hole for a while and then found seats to watch the parade.
I don’t like parades. Rather, I don’t like people at parades. No matter where we are there is always someone moving right in front of us or squeezing by me. We were 15 people all seated along steps and for some reason every person who wanted to get behind us went by me. Every one. I was watching. Then there are people who crowd in on the parade. It annoys me so much.
I wasn’t in the mood to celebrate America today and this parade is just the one I needed. It began with about 12 people all dressed in black holding black signs that said things like “Rejects Science – This is Fascism” They were silent and the crowd was pretty quiet too. It was powerful. After that we had all the science labs and the science school come by with there “floats”. There were no actual floats but rather themes for each of the labs. It was cool. Eva got to walk with her new friend Max along the route.
After the parade we went to Max’s house for bagels. Max’s dad was very nice. Eva had a nice time. We were quietly sitting in one corner of the deck because we did not know anyone and it felt like everyone knew everyone else. Was a bit hard to interact too much. We stayed till about 3pm and then headed home.
For the night we had my cousin Bill and his family came over. Andy entertained the kids and they loved playing with him so much that they asked if he would go with them to the beach to watch the fireworks. I manned the grill with the help of my Dad. We did burgers and dogs so we kept it simple. I watched the fireworks from the porch with my parents and Eva. Allison went to the beach with Bill and his family. The fireworks were very nice. It was a fairly quiet night except for the renters at the Smith’s house. They were out till 2am talking very loudly. Hard to sleep.