Friday, July 20, 2012

HB 4th of July

It was a very nice parade.  You have to go the day before the parade starting at
7 am to stake out your piece of land to sit and watch the parade from.
You stake out your section to sit in and put up chairs and your name.
We had a great spot.  We walked from our house to our spot and sat
and watched the parade and all the people.  It was great.

That evening we watched the fireworks ALL around us from our rooftop deck!
We could clearly see at least five different firework displays going off . .
PLUS Huntington Beach is crazy for the 4th and there were
fireworks going off all over the neighborhood --
BIG ONES! I could
hardly believe it.  It was crazy.  Even kept us up some during the night.

Next year I'm riding my bike down to the beach.  They close off
the street for all the people. We rode our bikes down earlier in the day
to see all the vendors and all different kinds of people. .
Interesting!


A very good diner located at the end of the pier.  Yummy burgers and shakes to
eat while watching the sunset over the ocean.






This reminds me of an OLD TRACTOR that we had on our farm!
I think it is almost the same?  It is exactly how I remember it!





Grandpa Bell said that this Bread Truck is how they brought bread to his family
in the depression days.  People could not afford to drive to the store
so the store brought the bread to their homes much like the milk man
and the ice man.





2 comments:

ej said...

That was more than your average parade, how cool! That horse with it's hooves painted? Love it! I think your plan for next year is great, the people watching alone would probably make it worth while :)

Shel said...

Looks like a great parade.