Happy Patriots Day...

3:30 AM. Wake up, get in uniform with fleece on top, depart for reenactment.
4:20 AM. Meet up with friends, wind up with an eight-year-old sitting on me (keeping me warm and her happy, it's a win-win situation).
5:30 AM. Watch reenactment (including watching my awesome first fife instructor die at his wife's feet from a Regular musket ball).
7:00 AM. Meet up with rest of corps, make sure our teensy little newest fifer gets to play songs he knows at warm-up.
7:30 AM. Step off for parade #1, about 0.75 miles. Really short. Then ceremonies.
8:15 AM. Go eat pancakes at a Patriots Day Pancake Breakfast at a nearby Baptist church.
9:30 AM. Naptime.(Hallelujah!)
10:30 AM. Stroll through historic cemetery then through downtown.
12:30 PM. REALLY quick lunch, catch bus to parade start.
(1:45 PM. Secret Performance, senior corps and alternates. Very short.)
2:00 PM. Step off for parade #2, just more than 2 miles. (It's been almost twelve hours...)
3:00 PM. SURVIVED PARADE #2!!! Hot dogs with Minute Men and corps, congratulate new corps members.
4:00 PM. Set out for home.
4:45 PM. Take care of all the stuff we had to bring.
6:24 PM. Blog about a long day that's not quite over but is no longer quite as strenuous. (We did a lot of walking in between parades, so yeah. Long day.)

Happy Patriots Day everyone...