Fourth of July weekend 7/6

...But sometimes they come back...

Sorry it's been so long, but we've been super busy and were out of Wi-Fi connection for a few days. Last Friday Megan and I went to Taste of Chicago and got some yummy food and listened to some bands. After a few hours we rode the subway back home so we could pack to go to Phil and JoAnn's vacation house at Lake Wildwood. When we arrived, we had to stop at the park rangers booth to get directions to the house but Sharon wouldn't stop flirting with the security guard. When we finally got away and headed to the house, we realized we didn't bring any food to share, and coincidentally, we saw a Schwann's ice cream truck. By this time it was quite dark outside, and we didn't know if they would sell any, but we stopped to ask anyway. We pulled into the nearest driveway and ran up to the truck. A few kids riding an ATV asked "Who are you?" and "What are you doing in our driveway?" and Sharon said "We're strangers! But we're buying ice cream!" So they left us alone and we bought our ice cream and drove to the house. We arrived at a house full of people including: Nora's Uncle Dan and Aunt Marilyn, Uncle Phil, Aunt JoAnn and cousin Dan, and his friend Dan. As you may conclude, it was quite confusing.

Saturday we woke up last, we also were the last ones to go to bed, but anyway, in the morning we had bacon, biscuits and gravy, and Sunny D. We all got dressed to go down to the lake and packed lunches, snacks and sunscreen. We had lot of fun swimming, getting slightly sunburned, riding jet skis and hanging out. We went back to the house to take showers and eat dinner and then went back to the lake to watch fireworks. They were pretty awesome.

4th of JULY!!!
On the fourth of July we went to Phil and JoAnn's real house and then went to see the small suburb, Mokena's 4th of July parade. We g0t lotsa candy and random toys. The little kids with numchucks were the best. The 2nd best was just a truck full of guys waving and smiling. We went back home and watched clips of different movies on TV including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Spanish, A Walk to Remember, Clueless, and He's Just Not That Into You.
(Couple hours later...)
Then we went to the cool fireworks in Mokena. There were bands playing, cannons shooting, reenactors reenacting, speakers speaking and illegal fireworks firing. After all that nonsense we FINALLY got to see the fireworks. It was really cool. We went to bed. The basement was awesome.

Monday we rode the train back to Chicago then hung out at home a while. Later we went to Nora Moreno Cargie's 50th birthday party. It was really fun and they had a great band and awesome Mexican food. We attempted to do the Mentos and Diet Coke with Mentos Gum and it failed. Then Megan and I were invited to see Toy Story 3 in 3D with two adorable 7 year olds and their mom. It was a really cool theatre with assigned seating and Megan cried her eyes out. We went back to their house and walked their dog in the creepy park and it was dark outside and there were creepy people. Then we went back and ate cereal and blueberries and strawberries.

'People Always Leave' so we gotta go.

Luv Nora&Meg