4th of July 2007

Celebrating the 4th
What a nice, if slightly unexpected, fun, relaxing 4th of July. 

Spent the morning lounging around the house, until the early afternoon, when my son and I decided to drive around the South Bay looking for Fireworks.

After about a 1/2 an hour of searching we found a local Phantom Fireworks stand and purchased about $150 worth of fireworks from them.  My son bought all of the stuff that he wanted and I did as well.  Afterwards, I drove back to the CVS near the house to buy some plastic lawn chairs to aid in sitting the guests we were expecting.

Around 6:00 P.M. my sister and mom arrived and we had dinner.  A little later, a friend of my sister's arrived and we then sat around outside chatting, waiting for it to get dark enough to start the fireworks show.  Due to the DST time change in March this year, it was nearly 8:45 P.M. before it was anywhere near dark enough to begin.

Begin we did, after my nephew David arrived with his girlfriend's kids.  Once we got started and I brought my Nikon D40 out, I took some shots of the kids having fun with the fireworks and everyone seemed to have a really good time.

We called it a night just before 10:00 P.M, which allowed my mom to get home in time to watch the CBSD special on TV that had the Boston Pops playing accompanied by a rather spectacular fireworks show. 

All in all, it was one of the funnest 4th's I can remember in a long, long time. Woot.