We spent part of the morning preparing for the party the next day.  Then we headed over to the club for some barbeque and the holiday festivities.  We ate, then the boys swam around for awhile.  They enjoyed taking turns swimming to Stuart and I was able to capture some videos.  Later the pool games began; the first game was the “coin dive”.  The boys were happy to see on the edge to watch the action.  Six and younger kids jumped into the pool first after the whistle and dived for coins.  It was cute watching the kids working hard to find coins.  Later the slightly older kids jumped in to help.  The next game was the “greased watermelon”.  A group of dads was recruited to play against the lifeguards; when everyone was ready and the crowd was excited, then the organizers realized they were missing the watermelons.  So the festivity had to be put on hold; the crowd along with the boys returned to the water to swim in the meantime.  Finally the competition started.  The teams were very into the game and were quite aggressive getting the greased watermelon.  The team of dads threw the watermelon to the opposite end of the pool three times and won the competition.  The boys enjoyed watching the action.  By then, we had been out of the sun for a couple of hours, so we convinced the boys to shower up and go home. 

     For the late afternoon, we initially considered going to the July 4th festival at the lake park and possibly watching the firework.  But Stuart and I were honestly feeling tired being in the sun.  Plus we did not want a very late night with the upcoming morning party, we decided against going.  We went out to enjoy a quiet dinner at a restaurant instead and picked up some final items from a store for the party.  When the night came, the boys started looking everywhere for fireworks and they were disappointed that they could only hear but not see any fireworks.  They did end up playing with glowsticks and staying up for a late night.