Stadium of FIRE!

Wow! I think I have discovered a new tradition for the 4th of July. We were lucky enough to go to the Stadium of Fire in Provo on Friday. What an event! I have never seen anything quite like it. It was the most professional, most patriotic show I have ever attended.It was broadcast to the Armed Services Network. We had great seats so that was fun. What a show! One of my favorite parts of the show was at the beginning several soldiers walked out onto the field to get ready to hold the giant flag and the crowd roared and was instantly on its feet. How cool is it that to give those soldiers a 30,000 person standing ovation!

There were skydivers that brought in the flags. I loved that! Then the Blue Angels did a fly over which was awesome! (scared Zachy and Kado outside with their daddies) Then a bunch of soldiers rolled out a field length American flag. My man Glenn Beck was the emcee and he was awesome. He is a patriot. He had it set up with CNN to surprise 3 Utah women whose husbands were stationed in Iraq to talk to them over a satellite. What a tearjerker. It was funny when one of the soldiers held up a red Utah jersey right there in the BYU stadium. He got quite the reaction! They also had 1000 dancers from 3 states perform a cool dance that represented the different Olympic sports and they had a bunch of athletes there too. Miss Utah (who incidentally is a Sgt. in the National Guard) sang God Bless America and it was great.

In the midst of all this the Blue Man Group and then Miley Cyrus performed. We were there for the kids to see "Hannah Montana" and they were dying with anticipation but honestly I thought the patriotic stuff was cooler. I am that way though.

After Miley performed they set off tons of awesome fireworks! There were so many my neck got tired looking up at them. (I know, poor me) The stadium was really smoky by the time they were done. The fireworks scared Zachy but Mark loved it because Z would snuggle with him. :)

The rest of the weekend was great too. Part two coming soon.......