The Beginning of the 4th July Celebration

The Flag Raising Ceremony.

 This flag at Macey's is huge.

 Their flag raising was not what I expected.  We got there at 8am and the flag was already up.  We thought we missed it, but we didn't.  They just lowered it, had a small moment of silence, then raised it again.  It was a well thought out plan because of the size of it.

 They had some veterans there.  One of them said a few words before the flag was lowered.

 When the flag was up they released some balloons.  They did more than is pictured.  It was fun seeing how small they would get.

The Flag Retirement

We went but did not take pictures.  So sad.  There were more people at that one.  

 The Carillon Concert

It was a windy day.

 The Bell Tower is behind us.

Michael reading Catching Fire while listening to the Bells.