The Fourth

Here are some of the highlights, so to speak:

 Not named for Sweet Becko, but rather the funeral home it leads to.  Sorry!

It's the *heavy sigh* children's parade.  More decorated bikes and stroller than you can possibly imagine.

The regular parade!  Yay!  This is a junior pipe band.  They sounded pretty good.  I'm sure that upholding proud Scottish tradition is worth all the beatings you get from normal kids.

Ah yes, the Star Wars nerds.  It's always great to see them.  This is their rather portly Darth Vader.

It's the pro-gay contingent!  Edmonds is definitely not Trump country.  And it's nice to see some inclusiveness.  But, like I've said in the past, we might not be seeing expressions of support like this in the future, owing to those who would really like to pull us backwards to an age that never existed.

There was also a superhero contingent.  Here's Batman.  He was pretty cool.

 It's the Edmonds School District Summer Detention Band!  I marched once.  It was cool.

We're getting to the very end.  Here's the "float" they have every year.  It's supposed to be the Edmonds Historical Museum.  It always wins some award even though it's the same every year.  Every.  Year.

Later, we went to my aunt's boat on Lake Union to watch the fireworks.  Here is Sweet Becko trying her hand at rowing a dinghy.

Sweet Becko on board.

And here's the lake right before the fireworks.  I didn't take pictures of the display.  I completely forgot.  But it was really good.  And then we went home.