Well we are still at Miguel’s. Have been climbing and chilling. Yesterday it rained so we chilled. Yesterday was the fourth of July and everybody was festive. BJ and I drank one beer each and then went into the van to watch “Semi-Pro” starring Will Ferrell which was kinda stupid but when it finished I can’t deny that I said “I wanna watch it again.” Anyway the people here were all getting rowdy and started setting off fireworks long before it even got dark. (You can buy fireworks on every corner here, but you have to travel to another county to buy booze.) This continued into the night. It was very loud. Everyone was going nuts over the fireworks and it was quite a novelty for us though we only went out to look at them when we could no longer hear the movie because they were so deafening.

Also yesterday I saw TWO separate families (mother, father, 2 kids) in matching teeshirts. One family all had on matching tie-dye teeshirts and the other family were wearing navy blue teeshirts with a pro-America themed slogan which I didn’t quite take in, because I was too distracted by the fact that they were all matching and that the father and two daughters were waiting at the start of a footbridge we were about to cross, watching while the mother tentatively started to cross the bridge. She was clutching the handrails and barely moving. “Just look ahead and keep going!” yelled the dad. But she turned aound and came back saying “No, I just don’t think I can do it.” Anyway the two sightings caused me to wonder if families wearing matching teeshirts is a fourth of July tradition in Kentucky.