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So what is your favorite holiday, Independence day or Pioneer day? I rather prefer pioneer day. No, I'm not from Utah. Or any place that you would think of as having a high enough Mormon population to celebrate the Saints entering the Salt Lake Valley. But where I grew up every pioneer day, or rather the Saturday closest, the Museum opens its grounds and there a ton of activities and food and games. There's a parade with the primary children singing and people dress up. All this is done surrounded by buildings, most over a hundred years old. I have always found that this is a much more interesting way to spend a holiday than watching fireworks. I suppose I may change my mind, never having experianced a Utah 24th, but I will soon enough. Not this year though. I get to spend one last pioneer day with my family, dressed up in a skirt and bonnet, eating corndogs.
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I much prefer the 4th in Utah. Then you get freedom festival, sleeping out on university avenue, and the BIG parade. Oddly enough, I like the 24th better when I'm at home in a state next to Utah. The stakes in my area all get together and have a big carnival, complete with rides, food, concerts, and fireworks, all free. I absolutely love it. My family all performs together and we have a blast (we're all singers.)
I will slay the dragon myself, thank you very much.
where are you from that celebrated pioneer day if you are not from utah? I never heard of pioneer day until I came to utah, and still find it kind of weird. but i have nothing against being able to play with fireworks one more night of the year.
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Apparently my new ward here in Maine celebrated it, too.bigthemat wrote:where are you from that celebrated pioneer day if you are not from utah? I never heard of pioneer day until I came to utah, and still find it kind of weird. but i have nothing against being able to play with fireworks one more night of the year.
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you're in maine?Katya wrote:Apparently my new ward here in Maine celebrated it, too.bigthemat wrote:where are you from that celebrated pioneer day if you are not from utah? I never heard of pioneer day until I came to utah, and still find it kind of weird. but i have nothing against being able to play with fireworks one more night of the year.
go new england!
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