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Yesterday Mandy and I went to Salem Days in Salem, Utah. Each year we go as sort of a family reunion of sorts and eat food, play games and watch the fireworks display put on by the city. We brought our papillion Taffy with us since she is our child. I felt so bad for her by the end of the night. She had been dragged and pulled and hit and even had Root Beer poured on her. When we were driving home at 11pm, Mandy looked in the back seat and she was totally out. I imagine her legs and neck hurt from each little kid wanting to take turns dragging out dog by the leash around their huge backyard.

Phyllis and Bruce made homemade root beer and some excellent chocolate chip cookies laced with acetone. It wasn’t their fault though. They are remodeling their basement and just had a cool new colored and stamped concrete floor put in. The piercing odor has been in the house for days and after you are there for a while, you just get used to it. I guess that includes the cookies they baked. Tasting them at the party we noticed the sharp, potent and concentrated taste that reminded us of home. Yum! Tastes like acetone! I felt bad for the work put into them, but they were really nasty. Well, how many times do you really remodel your basement. Next years cookies will be fine I”m sure.

The fireworks are always very cool. For a small town, they put on quite the show. This year we expected more of the same as we layed on our blankets near the Salem Pond. A storm approached in the distance and while we waited for 10pm to come, we were entertained by the lightening show to the west of us. Ten oclock came and went and still no fireworks. Then it started to rain. The lightening and thunder began to get closer together, signaling that the storm was only about 4 miles away. Nathan looked up the current radar on his iphone and discovered that the storm wasn’t very big bug was pretty powerful and looked to pass right over us.

We gathered under a blanket on the wet grass as it started to pour. Around this time they decided to start the fireworks; the first time I ever remember them not going off at 10pm exactly. We huddled under our blanket and peeked up at the sky to catch the begining of the contest between mother nature and Salem City. None of us lasted very long. With Taffy huddled in the back of the blanket and the rest of us trying to keep dry, we decided it was time to go. We gathered our stuff and ran back to our car. Taffy was so pleased to be in the safety of her bed in the backseat.

The drive home was nothing special. When we got home, we all pretty much passed out and fell asleep. I had to work in the morning, so really I only got about 5 hours of sleep.