Starr's Guide to the 24th in Utah

How to properly celebrate July 24th in Utah:

1. Go to a small town. We chose Escalante (no Spanish pronunciation please) to visit Summer and the dogs but most small towns will do.

2. Get lots of candy at the main street parade (be sure to stay long enough to watch the floats make a second pass after their u-turn at the end of town)

3. Throw in a mid-day hike (choose a canyon with water to help abate the heat and be sure to have popsicles waiting in the car at the end of the hike)

4. Heat to the rodeo to cheer on the neighbors. You don't have to enter, but must eat the requisite hot dog and snow cone (Stella chose red).


5. Try your hand at the mechanical bull (we let Summer handle number 5)

6. Go to bed before the fireworks, because they are pretty boring anyway.