Fireworks!

Yesterday we went to the fireworks show in Southport. I did this a couple times growing up, but there were always SO MANY people in Southport (with only one main road heading out of town) that my family always thought it was more trouble than it was worth. In their defense, it would often take about 1.5 hours to get to Southport (from OKI--a normal 25 min. drive) and then about 3 hours to get home. So when I told them all yesterday that Brian and I were going to go this year, they all kinda just laughed....

The show was scheduled to start at 9 p.m., so we left the house at 7:30 (after a super awesome homecooked supper [my nanny made some awesome homecooked ranch dressing and my dad grilled our filets PERFECTLY]). We had very little traffic until we got into Southport and then it was just "slow, but moving" until we got into downtown. There weren't many parking spaces, but fortunately we have a Honda, so we were able to wedge my car between a power pole and its support guidewire. :-)

We found some open grass space right on the waterfront. It was absolutely beautiful weather. Low 80s with the wind blowing 15-20 mph, which was perfect to keep the mosquitoes away.

The show started right on time and the fireworks were awesome! We were able to get some good pictures during the show:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lsleblanc82/FourthOfJuly2008

Afterward, we hightailed it outta there and made it to our car in record time! Brian was able to navigate through a lot of the side streets quickly and were able to make it home in about 45 minutes--not bad at all!

Overall, a very lovely evening!

Today is pretty cloudy and cool, so it may not be a good beach day. Currently we're watching the first stage of Le Tour de France! Oui!