After the parade we went to the cheesecake factory for lunch around 1130 a.m.  We had a wonderful lunch and we all splurged and had cheese cake.  Of course,  the one I got was cream cheese carrot cake.  Believe it or not it was 1500 calories.  I have only been eating around 1200-1300 calories a day since march.  So you can imagine I felt SUPER GUILTY. But it was delicious.  After, we came back to our home so mom Cook could take a nap so we could go to Heber at 6 p.m.  We bought tickets to "fiddlers and fireworks"  We had a barbeque, listened to pioneer fiddling and rode the Heber train to deer lake and watched fireworks across the lake.  The reflection was awesome.  It was a very fun evening.  We got home late midnight.  Mom Cook was a trooper and kept up very nicely.  It is amazing she is 87 years old and healthy and able to do as well as she does.  She does tire easily and her feet swell if she walks too much.

The days of 47 parade-July 24th in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Elder Uckdorf (first counselor in general presidency of the church) and his wife.

I liked this float a lot, the caterpillar went around on the float.

seeing the stage coach was cool

Betty jo and Allison enjoying the parade and it was an overcast day so the weather was cool and not too hot.

Mom wants to make sure she does not get too much sun.

Bill and I decided the day before to go with them since we had time off work.

We were thankful we brought our chairs to sit on.  The parade was a couple of hours long.

We are glad to be here to enjoy the parade also.

It is nice to be from a wonderful pioneer heritage.

On Sunday early afternoon mom Cook, Betty jo and Allison came for a visit

They had just attended a family reunion in Price Utah (on grandpa Cooks side of the family).  They wanted to stay for the days of 47 parade in Salt Lake on July 24th.  So they spent the 21st-26th with us in Ogden Utah.  Allison flew into Ogden on the 23rd and drove home with them on the 26th.  We had a very nice time with all of them.