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This year we celebrated our first Fourth of July here in Montana! What a wonderful day it turned out to be! The sun shined, the parade roared, and our little love spent the day outside lighting sparklers with daddy, finished off with a BBQ and fireworks! This holiday has always been one of my favorites! I love seeing so many people come together to celebrate this beautiful nation!

Growing up it was the holiday that everyone couldn’t wait to spend together! Spent downtown between the liquor store and MarysInn, we decorated our floats to parade through town, had our watermelon eating, egg tossing, gunnysack racing contests! Listened to Jack name off the next activities while balancing on the roof of the sugarshack. Of course you can’t forget the $5.00 mom gave us each that we spent putting our friends in “jail” and buying overpriced soda pop. But on that day we were winners! At that age $5.00 in our young eyes could buy us the world! Walking around, acting cool, sharing our fortune with friends. What a great day it always turned out to be!

This years festivities were a bit different for my husband and I! We had our Independence Day well spent with our daughter and saved our energy for today! July 5th! Today we attended a Trump Rally here in GreatFalls, Montana! What a crazy, amazing day to experience! We stood in line for a good 3 hours sharing stories, many interested in hearing about our lives in Alaska. We had walked a good two miles in a square with thousands of others waiting to hear the President’s speech! Due to the heat and lack of belief that we would make it into the areana, a few hundred people started turning back and heading home, but we had come too far to give up now! Let me tell you, there were a few thousand people still ahead of us once we finally made it to see the arena building! Talk about hectic!

Well the time had come, the doors had shut and people shuttled out of the lines faster than you can say Arnold Schwarzenegger. I stuck with the positivity and kept telling myself that the experience alone was worth the 85° heat and line we took on! It was! We made it up to stand and talk with a few of the policemen who were guarding the entrance and we saw some well dressed Secret Service men. They had told us that the fire marshals were the ones to shut the doors. They couldn’t take anymore people after 7,000 made it in, and to think, there were at least 3,000 people still outside who didn’t make it in! Thankfully for technology we were able to hear what our Great President had to say! After about an hour of hoping and praying that they might let the last hundred of us who stuck around squeeze by the gates, (they stood their ground) we went on our way back to our truck with big grins on our faces, happy that we made it so close! Past the protestors, past the guards and out the gates with pictures that we are happy to have had the chance to take! But it didn’t end there! They cleared the streets and we got to see President Trump drive past us and wave to the line of us heading home! A day I will never forget!

To conclude…

We will make America wealthy again, we will make America strong again, we will make America safe again, and we will make America great again!