We’re visiting Andrea’s family for the 4th of July week, having packed our small family, including Finley, but unfortunately minus the cats, in to the car for the 631 mile drive from our house to theirs. Obviously I missed a golden opportunity for ridiculous photos that I’ll have to remedy on the return trip!
4th of July in Bel Air is a medley of festivities, starting far too early at 6:45 AM with the raising of the flag, and ramping the excitement continually up and up through the way with hamster and turtle races. We never made it to the flag raising since we hadn’t even gotten through the coffee on the couch part of the morning, but we did get to the hamster races at 9:00 AM. You can see some folks were quite excited about this one, but the hamster races were quickly out-shone by the upcoming Turtle Races, complete with several hundred turtles organized into at least 30 heats of 10 turtles each. The line for entrants looked to be about a quarter mile long, single file, with some kids holding buckets or boxes with multiple turtles.
We’ve got a great plan to make the turtle races even MORE exciting next year, which I can’t reveal because while I’m certain they’re not illegal, are probably the sort of thing where you’re better off asking forgiveness rather than permission, but which will involve a wagon and a turtle named Tiny Turbo.