+ reinholdts four +: July 2007

A few images from the annual Bar Harbor Fourth of July parade. After spending the better part of the day before (and previous night) vomiting Sig joined the rest of the Reinholdts and Sophie for the parade in downtown Bar Harbor. Henning's favorites: "the things that go by and throw candy", which basically describes almost every float in the parade. Sig was less fond of the Shriners driving gas powered go-karts, but managed to keep everything we fed him at the parade in his stomach and cooed at each passing animal, with a definite preference for dogs. It made his mother beam and his father cringe. (Dogs aren't allowed in new homes.)

The Center for Peace and Justice's brigade added 11 panels to the Iraq war body count representing an additional 2,000+ killed in action since last year's parade, a sad commentary indeed.

After picking up every last piece of candy thrown from the floats, Sig went home to sleep it off and Henning refueled for an evening at the fireworks, joined by Laura & Sophie. After waiting for quite a long time on the village green, the fireworks began and Henning immediately asked if they could go home. Laura responded with, "In a few minutes..." He enjoyed the 'flowers in the sky', and it was an interesting end to a long July 4th for all of us. I managed to spy a few through the trees from our new digs near the top of West St. but was happy to hold down the fort listening for Sig.