Two Late Nights

Hello,

The night before the fourth of July, oh that would be the 3^rd wouldn’t it? Our neighborhood was full of revelry, flashes, and booms long past our bedtime. Leroy managed to get to sleep while it was still going on, but I stayed semi alert until it was over. A nap seemed like a nice idea but it remained elusive to me on the fourth. Leroy napped but he tells me that it was too long and he had trouble feeling alert again.

We decided to ride our bikes to the museum since he had heard that was a nice place to view the fireworks. I assured Leroy that I would be safe without a headlight since I would follow close behind him. We both have brilliant flashing tail lights. Traffic was rather light when we went and Leroy knows how to choose the less traveled street. A number of other bicyclists were out as well. The hard part was riding on the bike trail that was populated with a number of pedestrians. At any rate we made it safely to our destination. There was a small number of people so we were able to pick out a good spot. The fireworks display was nice, but somehow it did not live up to those that we experienced in Bratislava.

One the ride home there were, of course, many more people vying for one spot on the road. Leaving an event all leave at once, but come at different times. We did not hurry, hoping to give time for the numbers to go down. We again used the bike trial, but were very careful not to run into any unlit pedestrians. I started to think that a headlight might not be such a bad idea after all. When we had to travel on the streets we used the sidewalks as there were almost not walkers and many, many cars on the road. At the stop signs police officers were directing traffic and not one said anything about us being on the sidewalk, instead one called us pedestrians. Closer to home we went back on the street as the traffic diminished considerably. It was 11:30 before we got to bed. Again there were some explosions in the neighborhood, but they soon stopped. Wouldn’t it be nice if I were a night person?

Paula