Tuesday - July 4th
We had a really fun day. Roger's friend, Dan, and his family, came to visit. We had a yummy barbecue with a lot of food. It was really good. Roger and I bought a lot of fireworks and we were excited to finally have a year where we light our own. We usually go somewhere to watch fireworks. This is the first year, in a really long time, that we are actually home for the 4th of July. Anyways, so we spent a lot of money and got a big thing of fireworks at Sam's Club.
Our plans changed a little though. Earlier in the day, our neighbor stopped by and invited us to watch his fireworks. He said that he used to own a firework stand and he still has his license, so he can get the fireworks at the wholesale price. And he gets the big commercial fireworks. He said he spent $700.00, which is equivalent to $1300 at the retail price.
When it got dark, we grabbed our chairs and headed down the street to watch the fireworks. We figured, we would do our fireworks after.
The fireworks that our neighbor did were awesome! It was so fun to be right up close to the big fireworks. I loved it so much! Also, this year, reminded me a lot of that year we were in Montana over the 4th and we thought it was so cool, because everybody was lighting the big ones and it was like every where you looked and all around you, fireworks were going off. I love when it is like that. I think it is the coolest thing ever!
The fireworks were amazing! There was one part that was bad though. One firework fell on it's side and shot fireworks toward us. The big parts didn't hit us, but part of it hit Brinley in the knee. It wasn't bad at all. It just scared her. She didn't cry, so that was good. After that, Brinley and her friends didn't want to be so close to the fireworks anymore. They walked back to the house to watch the fireworks from the safety of our yard. They also had lots of fun playing games.
The firework show at the neighbor's lasted for a long time. I'm thinking it was at least 45 minutes. It was long and so cool! Anyway, we were all feeling tired after that, so we debated for a little bit about whether or not to do ours, but we decided that yes, we want to light them.
Ours weren't nearly as cool as the neighbor's. But they were still fun. When we got to the ones that go in the air, things got a little exciting. The first one Roger lit, started out nice, but fell shortly after it started. It started shooting fireworks right toward Brinley, Parker, and their friends. That was it for Brinley. She was really scared now. She spent the rest of the show sitting behind a chair at the back of the garage. Her and her friend watched a show on the I-pad, instead of the fireworks.
The next up in the air firework, did the same thing. This time it shot at Parker. It went right under his seat. He picked his legs up and jump out of his seat, to safety. Nobody got hurt. It was just exciting. After that, Roger found a cinder block to put the fireworks in, so they couldn't fall down. Everything went smoothly from that point on. It was a really fun night.
Here are links to some of the videos I took: Forest, trying to get stick through the fence door, Forest and Fireworks, walking past someone's fireworks, Trying to get a video of the fireworks.
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