Like many areas of the country, most towns in the area cancelled their Fourth of July fireworks displays. We talked with Kurt and Megan about whether to drive somewhere to see them, but since the closest display didn’t even start until 11pm (it’s still dusk then), we didn’t think the kids would make it. Indeed, they were all dead tired and in bed by 10pm.
I was the only one to stay up, so I went out to our front porch and watched fireworks launching around the lake. I could see larger displays in Lakeside and Woods Bay, as well as explosions up and down the west lake shore. It was pretty cool.
Tonight (the fifth), Kurt fired off some of the fireworks he’d picked up in Wyoming on the drive to Montana. (Colorado has very tight restrictions on fireworks, so you can’t buy anything “fun” there. Wyoming is where it’s at.) We launched them around 10:30, when it was finally getting dark.
It’s pretty tricky to catch fireworks in such dim lighting, but I managed to get a couple of good pictures.
The “big finale” was something called “100 Shots” that was pretty sweet.
The kids loved it, which of course was the whole point.