4th of July in Malad

Malad Idol is a big part of the July 4th celebrations.  Friday, July 2nd was when all 19 contestants performed.  11 people in the group age 14 and older and 8 in the group age 14 and under.  Marci sang the country song "Kerosene".

Saturday night 5 people performed from each age group.  Marci sang "Unwritten".  This night papers were passed out for random audience members to vote on their favorite. Country songs are a better idea, with some of the audience voting, but we did not know that small detail.  Marci had a good time and added some spice to the Malad Idol competition.  

 Dad in the pie eating contest.  The pie was a traditional shorting crust with a fruit raspberry filling and whipped topping.  All the pies were the same.  This was Dad's first pie eating contest.  You could not use your hands and all the pie had to be eaten, even any that spilled on the table. Dad said he ate about 1/3 of his pie. 

We celebrated the 4th on Sunday.  Marci worked until 6pm.

We set things up on the "pretty" side of the house.

Malad does so much fireworks that I actually got very tired of hearing and smelling the fireworks.  You can buy all kinds of fireworks right here in town and you can buy anything you want in Wyoming--the police don't enforce any of the illegal stuff, so days before and even as I type right now, people are still playing with fireworks.  

Dad sang the National Anthem before the parade on Saturday morning and then again before the final evening performances.  The parade route went right in front of our house --it was a very pleasant parade with plenty of variety and lasted an hour.  

 Kendal wanted me to put this picture of him with white cream filling from the fruit pizza on his lips.