Independence Day

We had an awesome day today celebrating Independence Day. We all along with our adopted daughter Malinda (by adopted I mean hanging out with us while her husband Paul is deployed) went to Brandon for some shopping and the fireworks at night. I'm not too sure what shopping has to do with the holiday but I was just along for the ride. I just wanted to see the fireworks. We also invited my friend Jason and his family along to watch the fireworks. It was great to be surrounded by friends and family for the night. For the last two years we have been going to the same location to watch them in the mall parking lot. I figured out what field they launch them out of and we park about 300 yards away from them. As they were going off we had the best vantage point in the entire area. A few of them looked like they were going to shower right down on us. I took some really good pictures of the event so I thought I would share them with everyone. They are in the scrolling slide show below. The only bad part is the chaos of traffic when it is all over. I think it is all worth it though. I hope everyone had as wonderful of a time as we did. I was just happy watching things blow up.

3rd of July

Tonight we decided to go buy some fireworks and blow some stuff up! Come to find out all the cool (cool as in blowing stuff up) fireworks we used to buy as kids can only be bought in Missouri. I guess they figure the pansy Floridians can’t handle the “cool” stuff. Bummer for me because I wanted to make some noise and all I got was some Whistling Pete’s and smoke bombs. Oh yeah I got some of the spinning flower foo foo (foo foo as in no bang) things too. We had fun anyway. Gregg got a little close to the little firecrackers and Lynn tried t launch the rockets after firmly planting them in the ground. Needless to say they were not space shuttle solid rocket boosters so they stayed in the ground and whistled causing everyone within 100 yards to lose a little hearing. We will be in a parade on the 4th with the Scouts. They asked me to uniform up and ride on the tank/float with them (crutch and all). More to come tomorrow. Hope all is well with everyone. Those of you in Missouri ….blow something up for me PLEASE!!!!