My Worship Revolution

Fun day yesterday taking the day off and celebrating the fourth with friends and family.  In the morning we went to the Matulich home in Long Beach where Sarah and Bob have hosted a parade for the past 21 years.  All the neighborhood kids decorate their bikes, families sit on their lawns and wait for the parade to come by, and usually it’s led by a fire truck.  Unfortunately the truck wasn’t able to make it this year.

Rachel and I drove the Revolution Scion in the parade, which also provided the music for the occasion.  We did this last year, too.   At the end, we all end up at the Matulich home with lots of food to eat!  I just love the feel of all the neighbors hanging together and celebrating.  It’s like a little taste of old school Americana.  Here’s a few pics:

After relaxing at home for about an hour we went by the Platt home to hang and take a dip.  We finally ended up at the home of Stephanie Corns’ parents.  They live in the unincorporated part of Whittier so it isn’t really monitored very well.  So every year people pitch in from the neighborhood and a guy goes to Vegas and get a bunch of fireworks, and I’m talking like the kind you see in the big professional shows.  These things were going off all over the place!  We weren’t the only ones.  It was insane…like a freakin warzone or something!

I took some video of it on my cell phone.  So this video is just some bad quality 5-8 second clips strung together to give you an idea of what the neighborhood was like. The end clip shows some of the fireworks we set off on a ladder in front of the house.  Good times.