The date today is July 16, 12 days past the fourth of July. Even though it is 12 days past the fourth of July I still hear fireworks outside my house. Every night. I thought I was patriotic living out west by wearing red, white and blue on the fourth, doing a few token flowers and sparklers and then going to watch the big fireworks at night. Apparently I was wrong. Here in the Midwest the fourth of July is celebrated throughout the entire month of July and maybe longer. Check back and I'll let you know. Not only that but there are several permanent firework stores near our neighborhood. Billboards around the city are advertising fireworks as "buy one get one free". They are just feeding the problem. Just when someone has finally run out of post-fourth-of-July fireworks they see another deal they just can't pass up. When Aaron went to "Patriotic Fireworks" on the 3rd to buy a few fireworks, the guy in line in front of him spent $4000.00 on fireworks!
Although I am a little annoyed with the whole firework business, we did get to watch the big show from a pretty cool place. Aaron used his connections to get us up to the helicopter landing pad on the 9th floor of the hospital to watch fireworks from all around the city. For the big show the fireworks were shot off a skyscraper. The kids actually enjoyed it because we were far enough away from all the fireworks that they didn't have to plug their ears the whole time. I should have taken a picture of the kids who were watching from the back window of the car, which was parked in the garage while we shot off bottle rockets, bees, fountains and flowers. We couldn't even get them out for the snakes.
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Ha ha, I love it! I can just see your kids in the back of the car! Gavin wore an ear warmer all night long.
And I'm with you about the neverending fireworks. The kids up thr street spent hours blowing up water bottles yesterday. I'm pretty much over it.
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