This year's Independence Day, I was particularly looking forward to the underlined activities below:Taken from Fort Bend Now, July 4, 2007
"Sugar Land invites the entire community to celebrate America’s 230th birthday, at the 21st annual Red, White and Bluefest, from 5-10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 4...
The evening begins with a Faces of America parade featuring Sugar Land’s culturally diverse residents displaying their various patriotic roots, followed by the Patriotic Pet Parade contest in which pets dressed in their finest red, white and blue get a chance to compete for the title of Sugar Land’s most patriotic pet. Throughout the event, the city will provide more than a hundred acres of food, games and good old-fashion American fun with jugglers, magicians and stilt walkers....
The evening closes with a 20-minute fireworks spectacular...."
Wow! That's some celebration right there. I was very much looking forward to it.
Sugar Land's "parade featuring culturally diverse residents displaying their various patriotic roots" could be translated as, "We here in Sugar Land are proud of our Indian population. We diplomatically strive towards inclusion when celebrating our country, so hey! Why not include theirs in the celebration!" But I'm OK with that. And the Patriotic Pet Parade. What a show that would have been! I was equipped with camera and all to snap my favorite pictures and share them with you. Who cares about the games. Free food and stilt walkers. Does it get any better than that?
We packed our car with two $8 folding chairs we had bought for but were not allowed to use at the Ben Folds concert and headed to the park. But alas, our local event was canceled due to a previous rain and a few leftover clouds. Seth was convinced there was a terrorist threat. Why else would they cancel flippin fireworks on the fourth of July! he exclaimed. Perhaps they were scared of rain, I calmly reasoned.
After a brief walk in a park whose existence was previously and sadly unbeknownst to us, we left hungry and dissappointed, the use our nifty folding chairs equipped with cup holder left for yet another day.
3 comments:
what's that little weiner dog got in his ammo belt? pepper spray? animals dressed up= very funny..
I am sorry it wasn't as wonderful as you'd hoped. Maybe next year.
What the heck did they do with all the food and fireworks, then? That much stuff doesn't just disappear into nothingness. Over one hundred acres of happening fun -- vanished into thin air? I don't think so.
Something very suspicious going on there.
I'm telling you. It was the tarrists. That's all they is two it. Them dang commie tarrists.
But it was a little wierd considering it hardly rained and there was a helicopter or two constantly circling me and Amber.
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