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National Themes For July 28th: National Milk Chocolate Day, Buffalo Soldiers Day, National Waterpark Day, and National Parent’s Day.

🍫National Milk Chocolate Day! Solid chocolate, when combined with either powdered, liquid or condensed milk, is known as milk chocolate. The most popular of all candy bars sold contain milk chocolate. Milk chocolate is also a popular ingredient in baking, specialty coffee drinks and hot chocolate. From the mid-17th century, milk was sometimes added to chocolate beverages, but in 1875 Daniel Peter invented milk chocolate by mixing a powdered milk developed by Henri Nestlé with the liquor.

🐎Buffalo Soldiers Day commemorates the formation in 1866 of the first regular Army regiments comprising African-American soldiers. “Buffalo Soldiers” (one of many African-American regiments raised during the Civil War) were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army. Mark Matthews, who is now buried at Arlington National Cemetery, was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier at 111 years old when he died on September 6, 2005. The segregated regiments were disbanded during the 1940s and 1950s as the U.S. armed forces embraced integration. On the first Buffalo Soldiers Day in 1992, a monument to the Buffalo Soldier was dedicated at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas by General Colin Powell. The Buffalo Soldier Museum is located in Houston Texas. Buffalo Soldier Commemorations have been held throughout our nation since 1992 when the United States Congress passed a law designating July 28th as Buffalo Soldiers Day in the United States.

⛲️National Waterpark Day! Waterparks around the world provide thrilling, water plunging rides for those who seek the white-knuckle hydro powered slides. For those who prefer to relax and unwind, lazy rivers, wave pools and spas in tropical scenes are also offered. With so many options to choose from, waterparks can be more than just a portion of a vacation. They can be the destination. In the United States, nearly every state has a waterpark. The Wisconsin Dells is the Waterpark Capital of the World and the largest indoor park in America is currently at Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania. From the youngest family member to grandma and grandpa, there’s a splashable, relaxable experience for all. On National Waterpark Day, enjoy all the memory making waterparks have to offer! Kalahari Resorts and Conventions founded National Waterpark Day on July 28 to celebrate the unique attractions waterparks offer especially during the height of summer. Kalahari opened its first waterpark in July 2000 in Wisconsin Dells – and have since led the expansion to other areas of the country including Sandusky, Ohio in 2005 and the Pocono Mountains Pennsylvania in 2015. In March 2017, Kalahari Resorts and Conventions opened phase two of its waterpark in the Pocono Mountains, which dethroned the Sandusky location as America’s Largest Indoor Waterpark. The family-owned company will soon be expanding to Round Rock, Texas. The resort was awarded #1 World’s Coolest Indoor Waterpark by Conde Nast Traveler in 2014.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦National Parents’ Day honors all parents. Parents play a vital role in the lives of children. From the day we are born, parents are our protectors, teachers, providers and role models. As families, they are the core of our communities. On National Parents’ Day, we honor all parents do every day to raise up their children in a world that is constantly changing and challenging. National Parents’ Day was established in 1994 when President Bill Clinton signed a Congressional Resolution into Law for: recognizing, uplifting, and supporting the role of parents in the rearing of children.” The bill was introduced by Republican Senator Trent Lott.

Milk chocolate my favorite day. The Buffalo Soldier Museum is one of the places I would like to visit in Houston, Texas. If a lady wanted to go down a water slide one last time for her 90th birthday, I guess your never to old. And she did the majority of it on her own. She climb the steps with own a gentlemanly escort, even though the lifeguards offered to carry her, she sled down the slide on her own while two lifeguards wait at the bottom to make sure everything went smoothly, then they help her from the water and she never lost the wide brim hat she had on. What an amazing inspiration. Love spending time with my parents and family. Millaa Millaa Falls is now one of my happy go to place. I wanted to jump in the picture and stick my toes in the water. I hope you found these falls as interesting as I did especially Mitchell and Ebor Falls. As you all know I love the rock formation in waterfalls.

Warm hugs!💕🐶🌤

🇦🇺Australia🇦🇺 💦Mitchell Falls is a four-tiered waterfall locate on the remote Mitchell Plateau in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. These four streams create series of huge pools, which flow one into another. The height of the Mitchell Falls is 80m (263 ft.) and it is mainly filled with the rains during the wet season. This is not a one day out and back hike waterfall, but there are other things to see along the way. And you need a 4 wheel drive vehicle.

💦Wallaman Falls is a 300 metres (980 ft) cascade and horsetail waterfall on the Stony Creek and is located in the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Wet Tropics in the northern region of Queensland, Australia. The waterfall is notable for its main drop of 268 metres (879 ft), which makes it the country's tallest single-drop waterfall. The pool at the bottom of the waterfall is 20 metres (66 ft) deep. The waterfall is situated in the Girringun National Park as it descends from the Atherton Tableland, where the Stony Creek, a tributary of the Herbert River, flows over an escarpment in the Seaview Range. The falls initially descend over a small number of cascades before the 268-metre (879 ft) horsetail drop.

💦Fitzroy Falls is a 120m (394ft.) waterfall near the head of the Yarrunga Creek in the Morton National Park in New South Wales, Australia.

💦Ebor Falls is a tiered waterfall on the Guy Fawkes River, located near Ebor and about 37 kilometres (23 mi) north-east of Wollomombi on Waterfall Way in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The first lookout is on a sealed road, approximately 200 metres (660 ft) off the Waterfall Way. This viewing platform shows the upper falls tumbling 115 metres (377 ft) over 4 layers of columned basalt rock in two falls. The lower Ebor falls, 600 metres (2,000 ft) further on, plunge over Permian sedimentary rocks into a steep forested gorge below.

💦Millaa Millaa Falls are approximately 18.3 metres (60 ft) in height and located at Theresa Creek Road, Millaa Millaa, Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. The Falls are accessed by sealed road off the Palmerston Highway about 5 minutes from the township of Millaa Millaa. The Falls are formed from volcanic basalt which has weathered to create distinctive vertical striations (pipe formations) in the surface of the rock which gives the falls its textural backdrop. There is a large pool below the falls suitable for swimming, that is surrounded by rainforest, except for a grassed viewing area facing the falls and a concrete block pad on the waters edge.