Tuesday July 4th 2017

Happy Fourth of July Everyone.

The heat wave continues on the Nevada Utah line. The mercury made it up to the 99 degree mark on the thermometer today. Hot, but still a few degrees cooler than Salt Lake City and much better than southern Nevada and Arizona. This was the hottest day of the year so far in Salt Lake City. It is predicted to get a few degrees warmer each day until the heat wave breaks over the weekend. The worst part is that with sunset around 9:30PM, it is still in the 90s at bed time. I need to run the AC all night.

Parade starting up the road by the Wendover Will statue.

The highlight of the day was the local Fourth of July Parade. The combined towns of West Wendover NV and Wendover UT have a parade from the West Wendover City Hall to the Wendover town offices. It wasn’t a big parade, but it was a fun small town event. The parade started at 11AM. I was about a half a mile from the starting line and it was over at my location by 11:30.

Police cars from Wendover UT and West Wendover NV lead the way. They are followed by a color guard from the Civil Air Patrol cadets.

Marching in a Chicken suit, flapping arms like wings in 90 plus degree weather.

There was a little bit of everything except a marching band. The closest thing to a marching band were a group of cheer leaders and gymnasts from a local training academy. Police and Fire equipment from both towns were making enough noise with their sirens and horns to be heard on the moon. Local businesses and civic groups entered floats in the parade and bringing up the rear of the parade were lots of horses with a couple of mules thrown in for diversity. A couple of the horses were entertaining by walking backward along the parade route.

The grand prize winning float.

The horses brought up the rear of the parade.

By far the biggest draw of the parade was the candy. Everybody in the parade was throwing candy to the spectators. Some of the candy trowing might have even been malicious. One group of adults that were not really watching the parade were showered with candy. It was kind of funny to watch the adults jump and run to be replaced by the kids grabbing all the candy from the ground. I don’t know if the people at the end of the parade route got any candy at the rate it was getting thrown around where I was located.

Tonight at 10:15 the fireworks are scheduled. If I can get some pictures of the fireworks, I’ll include them in tomorrow’s blog entry.