Happy Fourth of July!

I took these at our town's annual Fourth of July fireworks yesterday. This year's celebration was special because it is the 150th anniversary.

Anniversary of what, you may say? Well, I'm not really sure. I thought it was the anniversary of the founding of the town, but on the last day of celebrations, I learned that the town was founded less than 150 years ago, so I think this is a celebration of how long they have had Fourth of July celebrations. I'll have to look it up sometime and find the actual answer.  The question is, why don't we have the celebration on the actual 150th anniversary if this isn't it?

Things Morgan wonders. . . .





Morgan

Home Again, Home Again

This is the last post from our Texas adventures so I won't bore you with any more posts on this topic. :)

Saturday was our last day in San Antonio. Here are some pictures from our adventures that day.

Pastor and Karen. I think they were making fun of selfies and duck faces by taking one of their own.

Tower of the Americas

San Antonio has really cool architecture.

Mmm..Barbecue. This was the best meal that I had during the whole trip. Doesn't it look good?

Waiting for our taxi to come to take us to the airport.

All of our luggage

The Alamodome!!

Oh Claud...

Nick and Grace switched glasses because they were bored.

I love watching sunsets on a plane. It's something that you don't normally get to see unless you fly very often.

Back on the ground in Kansas City. Now for a 4 hour drive home with 15 people in one bus...

 So, after our bus ride we got back to church around 2:45 in the morning. I finally got to bed about 3:15 and slept soundly until 11:00 when mom woke us up so we could go see our new cousin, Greyson, who was born while we were in Texas.

Morgan

Fireworks, Gandalf! Fireworks!!

On the Fourth of July, the city of San Antonio put on a fireworks show for the gathering. Because apparently having a group of 25,000 teenagers and their chaperones justifies the need to have two fireworks shows. San Antonio, in my opinion, did a pretty good job with the fireworks, although I kind of missed our small town fireworks back home where everyone knows everyone else and going to the fireworks on the Fourth is an annual tradition.

Because of where they were shooting the fireworks off, the Tower of the Americas is in all the pictures, but I couldn't really avoided it even if I had wanted to.

Despite the large amount of pictures in this post, this in only about 20% of the pictures I took during the fireworks. I just kept taking pictures and hoping that some would turn out.

Morgan