Nathan and I went to Evanston for the Fourth of July this year. We had a lot of fun with my family (immediate and extended) and friends. Evanston is definitely the place to be on the fourth, everyone goes all out. For two nights straight, from dusk until midnight, you can hear fireworks constantly exploding no matter where you are in town. We bought quite a lot of fireworks and the boys all spent a few hours on Saturday and Sunday lighting them off. One of the more impressive "fireworks" was one my brother made. It is what he calls a "sparkler bomb" made with only a box of sparklers and some electric tape. The word bomb is a much better descriptor of what he made than a firework, dangerous but pretty cool. The city of Evanston also did a show and it was probably the best one I have ever seen! I was really glad Nathan got to visit Evanston on the 4th of July, it is definitely an experience.
Nathan was also pretty excited for the 4th because he got to shave off his beautifully grown mustache. He was not sad to part with his facial hair and I must say, I wasn't too sad to see it go either.
On the days leading up to the 4th my Dad took us to a couple movies. Friday the whole family went to see, "Avatar: The Last Airbender". The movie started at 9:45 and I called ahead to make sure they weren't sold out yet. I rushed the family to get there by 9:30, convinced we wouldn't get seats together since it was opening night. Well we got there at 9:30 and we were the only ones in the theater. I was pretty surprised until about five minutes into the movie when I understood all too clearly why nobody else was there. It is literally the worst movie I have ever seen. It wasn't a total waste of time and money however, we all got a really good laugh at ourselves and had fun bashing the movie afterward.
On Saturday a few of us went down to Ogden, UT to get Nathan a pair of insoles to help his feet. While there we all went and saw, "Eclipse", the latest Twilight movie. I thought it was pretty good, a lot of sickeningly sweet dialogue and unnecessary shirtless guys, but still fun to watch. My favorite part was that our group included Nathan, my Dad, my brothers Scott and Nathan, me, my sister Kendra, and our friend Polly; my Dad pointed out that we seemed to be the only group that consisted of more men than women. They were definitely good sports for seeing it with me even if they didn't want to. It was also really cute that every time there was kissing in the movie Kendra covered her eyes, she's such a sweetheart. I asked the boys what they thought of the movie and they all agreed that it wasn't too bad, but that after watching The Last Airbender, any movie looks like it deserves an oscar.
