Sunday, July 4, 2010

Independence Day

Happy Independence Day! Celebrate your love of our country by blowing up a small piece of it!
We took advantage of being in Alabama this year and fired off our own fireworks.
These are what the guy recommended to Marc after being told we have a small child, and didn't want anything dangerous. Marc got a bunch of what he thought were fountains. The one pictured above started out fountaining, then it shot good size fireballs 30 to 60 feet high. Like this.
So did the rest of the "fountains." The first couple shot through the limbs of one of our trees, so high overhead we hadn't thought it would be a problem. A few of the flaming spheres bounced off branches; one looked for a second like it was going to get stuck. We shot the rest off from a different spot.
After growing up in California and Utah, these are the coolest things ever.
The boys bonded over firepower.

I love the smell of gunpowder (and sparklers) in the evening.

3 comments:

rockwoodimages said...

Great smile. Sounds like Alabama fireworks are like Wyoming fireworks!

deb said...

Case looks like he enjoys the light show----so today I picked up some sparklers for him and Cash when they're out here.

Lara said...

Case looks so happy. It looks like you had a great time, and I'm glad he didn't sell you anything "dangerous" last night I had a kid at work who got shot in the neck with the flaming ball from a roman candle. I am also jealous of your tomato!