Leroy and I had an off and on
discussion about whether to go to the downtown fireworks display or not. The pros
for the debate were that it is close, it is more varied, and stronger showing that
we have been seeing in the neighborhood for several nights. The cons were that
we were becoming tired of fireworks, it was almost our bedtime when it was
scheduled to start, and it would be after our bedtime when we got home. In one
go round I would say let’s go and Leroy would vote for staying home. In the
next pondering an hour later we would have switched sides. When it came to be
8:30 we decided to go. Our plan was to walk about a mile or a little more from
our house without chairs, watch standing, and come home. We learned they were
shooting them on the 1st Ave. Bridge.
The scary part of this was walking
with so many local amateurs thinking they were pyrotechnics. One never quite
knew when something might come our way. We kept a careful eye ahead and around
to the sides. It seemed safest to cut through the campus close to us. That was true
as we saw no one there. It was noisy, however, as the bangs were echoing off of
the buildings and bouncing around the square. The sound was magnified and we
could not tell where it was originating.
When we got to the talked about viewing
site, it seemed buildings were in the way even though we saw some people all
set up in a parking lot, complete with glow sticks. We asked about the possibility
of seeing. They had two reasons for being there, they had done it last year and
could see all but the low ones, plus they had to work tomorrow and did not want
to caught up in all the traffic on the way home. From there we headed down to 1st
Ave. and liked that much better. I spotted a parking ramp across the street
with some people up there. We headed on over. It was a great place to see them
as we could look right down the avenue to the source. It was great and much
better than the neighbors had shown. We did get home late, but we were both
happy that we had put the effort into going out for the great display. The bangs
in the neighborhood did not slow down for some time anyway keeping us awake for
a while so it was good to see the best in the area.
Paula
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