Happy 4th of July!!

Packing up beach stuff, cooler full of food, red, white and blue, friends, family, beach, sun, Penfield Pavilion, sunset band concert, LI Sound full of private yachts, walking the beach, sunburn, big feet painted in the street, digging out loungers in the sand, fun with friends, cheese whiz, fireworks, big booms, vibrating ground, smell of burning explosives, boat horns, ooooo, ahhhhhh, preppy fireworks, sparkle fireworks, naming all the fireworks, finales, long walk back to the car, traffic jam in downtown Fairfield......4th of July!

Of course, there were those years we didn't make the beach trip to the fireworks and my dad would take us up to the church (two doors away!) and we'd watch what we could see from just under the bellfry. Or the time we actually make the trek down to Washington, D.C. for a crazy trip to the mall!

Today, we had the red, white and blue, (VBS!), food, friends, rain....... yup, and one tornado in Columbia, MD! On our way home, despite a raindate, we discovered that rain soaked, lightening laden, tornado blown Columbia went ahead with their abbreviated fireworks show. We stopped along 29 and watched from our car through the windshield wipers! They were beautiful - all 5 of them.

Happy Fourth!