Independence Day
About the middle of Summer break comes an awesome holiday: Independence Day. For many people it's a day filled with friends and family, games and food. For my family growing up it always meant a trip to my Grandparent's house in Circleville, Utah. I looked forward to that trip all year. It was a big family reunion for one thing. My mom is one of seven kids, so there were always a ton of people. My grandparents have five spare beds in their house and all of them would be occupied, as well as the two couches and the living room floor and an air mattress or two and the couch in the basement. And we'd still have about four or more tents pitched in the backyard. "Stan's Tent City" the neighbors call it. Up until a few years ago some of us used to sleep right out under the stars. There are so many stars there! I wouldn't even know where to begin to count them! But we used to count the shooting stars until we fell asleep. On the ...