We had a wonderful 4th of July celebration on Saturday with Robin's parents (Leland and Diana) and also spend most of the afternoon and evening with Robin's sister Megan and Megan's "significant other" Seth. We started out with a little croquet match in which the 2 newbies to croquet placed 1st (Seth) and 2nd (Neal). We then strolled over to the corn field for the annual corn pictures. The corn is doing well this year (over head high in places). We then proceeded to have an excellent spread of burgers, potato salad, chips, brownies, and watermelon which were more than satisfying for the hunger we had mustered up. Kudos to Leland and Diana for the excellent meal they prepared. After supper we drove over the Lake Vermillion state park and took a 1.25 mile hike on one of the walking trails. The walk was quite nice and made plenty of room in our stomachs for our next treats. Smores!!! Leland built an excellent "tire fire" and we enjoyed roasting marshmallows, making Smores, and some of us even threw a few fire-crackers into the fire. Next on deck was Seth's excellent firework display. He put on quite a show for all of us. I do have to say that the 14.5 hour trek to South Dakota was well worth the activities and fellowship we had on the 4th. Below are some of the pictures and video clips we were able to capture.
Both Robin and her mom were playing with handicaps (her mom recently had hand surgery and of course Robin's handicap was her "baby bump"/AKA Mini Matthews (just in case you had not heard already).
Megan could see the writing on the wall and began to weep as Seth and I began to take over the match.
Robin and I in the corn.
Diana and Leland in the corn.
Megan and Seth in the corn. They were in a very tall section of corn.
A beautiful South Dakota sunset as we made smores and awaited darkness and the firework show.
This is a fabulous play by play of the 4th! I felt as if I was there. :-) I probably would not have let the two newbies win. That was nice of the rest of the clan.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the Oklahoma song, "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye ...."
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