1st and 2nd

I once again come to you too tired to offer a worthy post of narration and humor. Please accept this raw data and enjoy it.

My own video from the weekend is now available (below) as well as someone else's from YouTube showing the second freeze frame attempt. There was some confusion about the timing of the event which resulted in two attempts. There were somewhere around 40 people involved from what we could tell.

This was the first attempt at noon. I made the decision to stay out and video tape (aka wimped out) not knowing yet that there would be a second freeze at 1pm.


Here's the 1pm version, in which I participated. Our crew is not visible in this person's YouTube video until the very end where, unfortunately, Becky and Elizabeth (a friend of hers who told us about the freeze) get called out on an unrealistic high five.


I don't remember the streets being this crowded last year. Weather it was our timing (we spent a long time in line at the port-a-potties this year) or a different choice in route, we definitely avoided it by heading further north after this clip.


The girls got a free shoulder adjustment while bobbing and weaving through the street like we were being chased.


Moving on to Saturday. Once again, I choose sleep over blogging. The updated photo album documents a marvelous breakfast...at 11am, Josh's new status (be sure to ask him about it), Chinese food sharing at P.F Chang's, ice cream at the Plush Horse, my brief foray into close-up photography while the girls took way too long in the bathroom, and finally, fireworks in Itasca, the second largest in the state. Which ones were the largest? NOT Peoria's!!! :-P