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Eva’s Amazing Singing at the 4th of July Neighborhood Parade

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Falmouth Fireworks
Photo-A-Day #4100

Our 4th of July celebration began rather early today. Andrew was up at 4am. Allison graciously took over trying to get him to go back to sleep. No luck. So when I got up and before the annual neighborhood parade she took a nap while he watched some videos on Netflix. I can’t even tell you what I was up to this morning except for maybe some coloring in my The Coloring Notebook. Eva did some sketching while I colored.

Around 11am we went over to the Dartmouth Ave Annual 4th of July Neighborhood Parade. We’ve been doing it each year and this year Eva said that she wanted to sing “God Bless America”. Well, I have never heard her sing a whole song before, except for goofing around at the house or in the car. I was utterly blown away to hear her sing “God Bless America”. She got right up on that picnic table and sang her heart out and did it so well. She had no musical accompaniment, just her singing. She was so poised and confident. It was a very proud dad moment.I caught it on video and it is in today’s vlog.

After the parade I went with my Dad, Uncle Wayne and cousin Scott to see the Hōkūleʻa over in Woods Hole. This is a double hulled canoe that is sailing around the world with no instruments. The sailors use the stars, waves and other means of navigation. It is a really amazing thing. The boat is 62 feet in length and has spots for 10-14 crew. I know one of the guys on one leg of the journey and thought that he would be there, but he wasn’t.

When we came home it was time for the beach. I went over and Eva and her friends had dug a large hole. They intended to sit in it to watch the fireworks but the tide had other plans. Then it was back home for showers and a cook out. We had a good amount of visitors and it was a very enjoyable meal.

Then it was time to head back to the beach for the famous Falmouth Fireworks display. I set up my camera with the fish-eye lens in order to capture the fireworks. They were good this year and luckily the winds blew away most of the smoke before the next firework went off. I was able to get a few decent photos.

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On the Cape, Ready for the 4th

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Photo-A-Day #4099

Tonight is a mandatory holiday for my group. That means that I had to use one of my holidays and had the night off. That is fine with me. I like the extra day of no work and it was good to come home and pack up the car to head with the family down to the Cape. In my haste to pack up everything I completely forgot power cords for my phones and cameras. Whoops. That meant a trip to Walmart soon after we arrived. I picked up a couple of cheap charger cables and a two port usb plug to charge them.

We went to the beach, too. I contemplated taking my phone with me to the water to take photos of the kids and more video and even though it is waterproof up to a certain amount I figured that it would most likely get dropped so no water photos. The kids had a nice time in the water and the beach was so packed. I sat down to dry off an ended up falling in and out of sleep so I decided to head back to the house. I fell asleep on our bed for a few hours and got up for dinner. We made our way over to a friend’s house for a party and then back home to put the kids in bed. An early night for us but an early morning for Allison, she was up with Andrew at 4am. I stayed sleeping. I sleep well on the Cape.