day of deliverance

im sure if you dont live in utah you no doubt have no idea what "pioneer day" is. well its is today, for starters, july 24. its a mormon holiday celebrating the arrival of the first mormon settlers to salt lake city in 1847, and its a very big deal. here in cc, there is a parade that i actually didnt make it to. well i went last year, and wasnt impressed enough walk the 3 blocks this year. the parades here are hardly worthy of the title parade. they usually consist of a couple atvs, some pickups with crap taped to the side, the "confidance" dance troop (last year they performed with fold up lawn chairs), a fire truck. you get the idea. and then since there are so few entries, they space them out like a half hour apart to make the event last longer than the 3 minutes it should. for pioneer day, they dress up in pioneer clothes and pull hand carts. and everybody is there. anyway i missed it this year, so maybe it was the best time i never had, i dont know. but i was really tired because i couldnt sleep all night because i had nightmares about the ice truck killer from dexter. i cant stop watching it because im addicted to my love for michael c. hall. last night i watched one episode and was so creeped out i had to watch an entire marilyn monroe musical afterwards (gentlemen prefer blonds)(a kind of torture of a different kind) to try and de-creep my mind. it didnt work.
ps i guess pioneer day used to be called "day of deliverance" which is creepier than all the dexter episodes put together...