Celebrating Independence 2012

We were so excited to be in Utah again for the fourth of July. Provo knows how to celebrate Independence Day! We started out the day having breakfast with all the family that ran in the various freedom run that morning. Then we went to Scera Park where they held the Colonial Fest. This is a living museum, called the Village at Aubin’s Grove, and features a gathering of Colonial artisans, military exhibits, and period craftsmen and women. The village celebrates the Colonial period from 1607 Jamestown through to the signing of the Constitution in 1787. We enjoyed walking around watching people make brooms, buckets, calligraphers, guns and clothes.

When it was time to head to the stadium to wait for fireworks, we stopped first at the grocery store for snacks and then found our blankets and settled in to wait for the concert to start and the main event—the fireworks.