4th of July in Coronado



Dan, Todd, Isaac, Jovie, Aimee, Pete

 
 
Coronado might be the best place in the world to celebrate July 4th. We woke up early-ish and dressed in homemade matching red, white, and blue outfits.

 

Everyone comes to Coronado for a fantastic two-hour parade and everyone wears all the flag-inspired clothes they can track down. It's quite a sight. We found a shady spot to watch the parade. All the branches of military had bands. We saw the Budweiser Clydesdales, Miss Coronado, baton twirlers, clowns, and a marching band from Minnesota.

 

 

Pete and Dan had two parties to attend along the parade route, so the kids traveled in style on shoulders so they could watch the parade as we moved. We ended up in a shady spot in front of a beautiful house with lots of food and lots of patriotic revelers. 

After the parade, Jovie and I enjoyed a tour of the neighborhood all dressed up for the occasion.

 We were invited to lunch at Gran-Gran's house a couple streets down from Pete and Dan's.

 The guys watched the kids during naptime so TB and I could ride bikes around the island. The beach, the bay, and every park were as full of people as possible. The tents and bbqs and picnic blankets and music and kids and bikes were more dense then you can imagine. It was very exciting. At dark, we loaded the kids up in the bike trailer and rode onto the Navy base to meet up with Todd's friend Stephanie's family. She invited us to watch the fireworks on her deck and it was quite a view! We could see Coronado's show going up from a barge in the bay and San Diego's show from four spots around town along with Sea World's and Point Loma's fireworks. Stephanie set up a big buffet of food and snacks and desserts. It was really first class treatment and her children were delightful and ours were adorable. It was a really great day with perfect weather and a lot of celebrating.