Happy 4th of July!

On the fourth we had planned to go to Lake Coeur d'Alene, swim, eat fried chicken and watch the awesome fireworks show that they have every year( some 30+ thousand people were expected for the show). Well, when we got downtown, it was madness! The city had closed off all public access so that you had to park in the payed parking lots,which were completely full. So after driving around for fourty five minutes we decided to go to Honeysuckle beach. It's about a ten minute drive from our house. When we arrived there were some people there but it wasn't overly crowded like the CDA Lake.Our kids and their cousins went swimming,built sandcastles and we had some yummy fried chicken for dinner.

A fireboat was on the lake, spraying water and showing their stuff. I took a couple kids out on the docks and the boat pulled up. The firemen asked if the kids would like to go on board and check the boat out. It was so cool!

After the boat, we set up our chairs on the dock and watched a good fireworks display on the lake:)