We had a good 4th this year. JJ's little sister, Jacian, and her hubby, Scott, and their two boys came up to visit for a few days. Lizzie and Cole (3 years old) played well together and Dylan is waiting for Cruz (6 weeks old) to get old enough for them to get into trouble!! (Dylan manages to do that on his own, but will welcome a sidekick I am sure!!)
It was "hot" for us up here in Washington, but to the Southern Oregonians, it was a nice temperature. We got out the kiddie pool and some other water toys and played with those one day, did some shopping, watched some fireworks, did some touristy kind of things, ate lots of good food and even managed to catch a Mariners game!!
For the 4th, Jacian and I went to "Boom City" to get our fireworks and we were glad we went just the two of us. It is a big lot on the Tulalip reservation with a lot of booths selling fireworks. You get to barter a little with the folks and if you go on the 4th they are more apt to give you a deal, so we were told... We think we got a deal so I guess that is all that matters. We turned down the road to get to "Boom City" and there was a long line of cars, that's when we decided we were glad it was just the two of us. We ended up parking and walking a little ways just to get to the place. We were kind of laughing at the people who brought wagons etc to haul their stuff back to their cars and once we were done there, we understood why... We got a box of fountains that was a rather large box and if we had brought our wagon it would have been easier to haul it to our car!! Lesson learned!!
Later that afternoon we went over to a co-worker's house to have some good food and fun and a little pool time for the kids. Lizzie sure talks big about swimming, but once you get her in the pool she didn't want to let go of JJ. I put Dylan in a floatie thing and he had a death grip on that and didn't like it when JJ or I would go under the water and pop back up...kind of scared the poor boy!! Towards the end Lizzie was getting braver and would walk on her tip toes in the shallow end.
After swimming we headed back home - a whole 2 miles or so away - and at dusk started our fireworks. JJ put on a good show with the fountains Jacian and I got. We also got to enjoy the neighbors' fireworks too. One thing that is different here in Washington is that the ones that fly up in the air and explode are legal!! This was our first 4th actually being in the state - we typically go to my cousin's house in Portland. So, that was fun to see all the different ones flying up into the air and the booms seemed to go on and on and on... It was really cool!!
We had a great time!!
