Last weekend Cory and I went up to Houghton for the fourth. I think this year was the first year that I actually noticed how many people actually go places for the long weekend. In the UP they always talk about everybody traveling but you never actually see it on the roads, there might be 5 cars instead of the usual 2 or 3. We left after Cory got off work on Thursday, the trip generally takes 8 to 9 hours depending on traffic and the weather it took us the full 9 this time because of everybody heading up north. When we got in we met up with everybody that was in town and hung out.

The next day a bunch of us went out to eat and then went to the Gay parade and all of the festivities there. No, it's not a parade full of gay people, there is a itty bitty town in the Keweenaw named Gay and all that they have there is the Gay Bar. The parade was interesting to say the least, it even rivaled Gladstones! Anybody can be in the parade as long as they come up with something interesting to do while in it. One guy just wore a bathrobe and underwear and drank beer as he walked down the street and there was another guy that took 10 wiener dogs and dressed them up like baby reindeer and made them pull a mini sleigh as he walked next to them as Santa. There was also a group that danced to the chicken dance the entire time. After the parade everybody gathers in a field for the trout tossing competition. After that we all headed back to Houghton for dinner and to hangout until the fireworks. The fireworks were good but nothing spectacular.

Saturday I actually had to do something productive, move all of my stuff into my new room. That was actually the reason that we went up to Houghton. At the end of last semester the girl living in the room that I am going to be in next year wasn't out yet so I had to pack all of my stuff up and put it into a corner in my old room. Seeing how I'm not going to be up until after the girl living in my old room is there we had to go up sometime to move everything around. After getting everything moved in we met up with everybody at the beach and hung out down there all day and then a bunch of people came back to our house for a BBQ! All in all it was a fun weekend, it was nice to see everybody and be up there for the long weekend.