What did you do for the 4th???

There is no other holiday like the 4th in my opinion.  You have family together, you have good food, and you have everyone outdoors enjoying the day.  In my opinion there is no other holiday like the 4th, and to top it off you even get fireworks.  I love it.  Well the plans that Monika and I had where to go down to Pensacola and to spend time with my step dad and that side of the family.  To give you a little background on this side of the family I would have to write a book, but I’ll give you the quick and dirty.  My step dad moved down about two years ago on the same piece of land that his brother was living on and built a house down there.  The land is right next to the river that goes through Milton Fl and part of it is swamp land.  David’s house was just built about 6 months ago and this is the first time that I get to see it. 

So we drive down once I get off of work and Mokica was finished with her appointment and went down to meet up with the rest of the family that went down earlier that week.  On the way down everything went well, traffic wasn’t to bad, the ride was pretty smooth.  Until we where about 30 minutes away from the house and all of a sudden it seemed like we where in a monsoon.  Monika was like were in a tornado, don’t get me wrong it was raining pretty bad but anyone who has lived in Florida well that is normal.  You get a hard rain for about a hour and then it stops and gets hot as all get out after that.  So we make it there and the house is packed with all the family.  Skip to the fourth and we all are going out to the river to watch the fireworks and spend time out at the park.  Both my brother and my uncle have there boats out at the house.  So we make our way down the trail to the river from the house and take a boat ride down the river to the park where david went out earlier to get a spot. 

From there it was a blast.  The family out playing botche ball, volleyball, and out on the water.  What else could you as for.  But that’s what we did for the holidays.  Hope that you all had a great one as well.