Fourth of July Weekend - Part III

Saturday was a lousy weather day. I had wanted to go to the Monee 4th of July Parade, but apparently I was mixed up on what time it was at and we missed it (oops!). Then it proceeded to rain basically all day so we just took it easy at home. While Lucas napped, Wally and I got a little crazy and played some Scrabble - yep, we're WILD!! The rain moved out by early evening, and we weren't sure about heading to some fireworks or not. We were going to play it by ear and see how Lucas was doing, but first we thought that we would head to Balmoral Race Track (horse (harness) racing), which is 15 minutes from our house. This would be Lucas' first time at "the track" (it's never too early to introduce Lucas to gambling right, I mean we are originally from the Illinois Valley - just kidding). We placed a few $2 bets, lost a lot of races, but had a good time. Lucas zonked out after awhile so we just headed home and decided to skip the fireworks for this year.

Back from the parade that we missed...


I told you we played Scrabble! This was as far as we got and then gave up :)


Harness racing


Daddy showing Lucas the horses!




Lucas "yelling" for Horse #4 to win!!