Our First Fourth of July

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We spent our 4th of July with various friends that we hadn't seen in a long time.

Here's the main look of the day

At the farm we made friends with a little goat.

On the way to a chili cookoff event, Mara helped Daddy hold the umbrella. That huge umbrella was tremendously useful to have on a very bright day in California, we were so glad to bring it along!

Nose scrunchies as usual

And a big crowd gathered here for the Chili.

Mara's all-pink attire was completely haphazard:
- Daddy had picked up the onesie at random that morning,
- Mommy could not find any other hat for herself, and donated it to the baby when our umbrella was elsewhere,
- a friend handed over the pink beads necklace which occupied the little hands for a very long time.


The evening was marked with a quick walk up the hill from our house, where you can see a magic view of all of Silicon Valley. Plenty of other people seemed to have the very same idea of a 4th of July evening, we were all congregated at the hilltop extending our necks to see better like a bunch of meerkats. 
Fireworks popped in and out like multicolored fleeting sky flowers. 


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