Fourth of July!

On the Fourth of July our city of San Gabriel had a parade and activities for children. Much to B.J.'s dismay we started our Fourth of July watching the parade. Don't worry I won't bore you with too many pictures from the parade, just a few. 

Yay California!

Look at this cute old man in his police bug!

Miss Taiwanese American. I'm posting this because of the crown. You could kill someone with that thing.

We then went to watch the fireworks at Disneyland. My mom would talk about how she remembered going to Disneyland on the Fourth of July and said that it was the most crowded she had seen it. So B.J. and I decided to go about five hours early, park ourselves on a bench, and wait for the fireworks. It actually was not very crowded during the day but when night came it was packed! Luckily we met another couple that became our 'bench buddies' so we would save each others' seats when we wanted a break from sitting in the sun. We were all really dedicated to saving each others' spot, I even told an elderly lady that she couldn't sit there because the seats were saved.....in my defense there were plenty of other benches around the park.....

The firework show was very patriotic. However, do you see that big, fat, ugly tree in the right corner of the picture??? Yea, that was our view of the fireworks. We were still able to see fireworks that were in front of the castle and hear the music, so I was still happy celebrating in Disneyland.
That weekend the park was still celebrating the Fourth so we went over to California Adventure for their patriotic addition to the World of Color. It was beautiful! We had a wonderful first Fourth of July in California!