4th of July in Sonoma California

We REALLY miss our Annual 4th. It has been our extended family for 26+ years. We couldn't make it this year. How to handle our sorrow?
Let's go to a parade!

2007-07-04 PARADE on the 4th

Now we have NO experience with 4th of July parades, but we have seen plenty of other parades, including Macy's in New York. This was by far the best parade we have ever seen. Ron gets up at 5am and goes downtown to set up some bleachers so his family has a comfy place to sit. He and a friend sit there until the parade starts at 10.
The parade finishes sometime after 11 and we load up the bleachers and go home.
Then we will travel to go tubing on the Russian River.