Parades, Kiwi, and Biking. July 4th

The July 4th parade is always busy for us, but it isn’t like the Memorial Day parade. I was really hoping that we would have a lot of people come in for the buffet, but it ended up being a very slow buffet day. I guess next year I will have to work on marketing that better. I did make a nice little bird cage out of a watermelon and I even ventured out of my comfort zone and made a little bird out of a kiwi.

Forrest was really bummed that he had to help out because he had an opportunity to ride his bike in the parade with the Bike Ypsi group, but I told him I really need him to stick around. The way parades work is that we are extremely busy right up until the parade starts, then we are completely dead until it is over. As soon as the parade started, the café was empty, and even Forrest was nowhere to be seen. I took a little stroll down the street to see the parade, and when the Bike Ypsi group rode by, there was Forrest riding with them. It was kind of hard to believe that 10 minutes earlier he had been serving latte’s to all the people in the crowd.