Ouray, CO for the 4th of July!

Steve and Connie have a house up in Ouray and I have never been there for the 4th. I know, I couldn't believe it :) It's kind of one of those traditions for them to go up there over the 4th and it just so happened that we seemed to be out of town during all the 4th's leading up to this year! SO... this was the year to go! We began the weekend by fishing on their lake Friday night...


















































Then, the next morning, we went to Ouray's infamous 4th of July parade. IT WAS AWESOME! If you look in some of the pictures, you can see that it was basically just ONE HUGE water fight between the onlookers and those that were in the parade. There were HUGE water hoses amongst many of the floats/vehicles and many of the onlookers had buckets, buckets, and yes...buckets of water and super soakers! It was great!





















































































And, then there came FOOD! Later that day we had the traditional 4th of July BBQ and ended with Connor and Joey drawing pictures in the air with sparklers, and then heading into town for the fireworks show. It was so great because the fireworks were up against a mountain side and we had a thunder/lightening storm occurring simultaneously!