Finally Fireworks - with Friends!

As noted earlier - the kids were pretty disappointed about missing the fireworks on the 4th of July. Fortunately though (and I'm still not sure exactly why) a lot of towns around here seem to spread out the fun and one of our neighboring towns hosted fireworks later in July that we got to go to. Alicia had been begging for a playdate with one of her friends who happens to live in that town so we decided to just all go together. We all stopped at a nice little ice-cream shop for after dinner-treats. Then we all walked around the town and down to the fireworks and sat and waited while we had the endless cycle of - "when are they going to start?" "not until it gets dark!" When they did go off it was great though and the kids gave commentary and amusement through it all.