Day 31, July 30, 2011

Today, Saturday, was a very unusual mix of activities.  First we went to the local parade, held in honor of the Boulder County Fair.  Unfortunately, the fair was to begin on Monday because it would have been nice to have taken the kids.  We got a nice seat on the edge of the sidewalk where we got lots of candy thrown at us.

There were lots of great floats and other entries, of which Corita took many photos for ideas for the annual Southwest School participation in the Honduran Independence Day parade.  I’m sure we could get more ideas at a 4^th of July parade, but we missed that this year.  One of the groups was a theater group who was passing out announcements for a free Shakespeare performance that very same night.  Boy, were we lucky!

So that evening we took a picnic lunch over to Loveland where we saw Shakespeare's "Love's Labor Lost".  It was quite a performance, even including the audience (us!) in their performance.

It was a little after dark when we pulled into Longmont and we were mystified as to why whole families were sitting out along Main Street in their lawn chairs.  The parade had been that morning, after all!  Well, it turns out we drove into the middle of the annual Hot Rod Cruise down Main Street.  Our rented luxury van did not meet the bill so we pulled over to watch the cars drive by for a while.  It turns out Longmont hosts an annual ColRODan Hot Rod show and competition which was to start the next day, but the previous evening everyone takes their souped-up cars out to show them off, revving their motors while paused at the lights.  Some drive into parking lots and pop their hood to show off their fine work.  It was a dramatic change of activity from the Shakespeare play, but that's what made it so much fun!  We cruised for a while with Joel waving at everyone and shouting, "Nice car!" before calling it a night.