Fourth of July

Hi All,

So sorry it's taken us awhile to update this blog. It seems we like to do things in big chunks. :)

Fourth of July weekend was quite interesting over here. The nightly fireworks at the Amphitheatre started on a Saturday night and went right through to Tuesday night! Most of the companies in the local area generously gave their employees the Monday off (it was a public holiday). However, the Library was still open and was very thankful that I came into help them out as it seems that lots of people go away for the long weekend - now we know why!

We decided to go up to Seans work on the Tuesday night to watch the last of the fireworks. We found a lovely spot on a balcony and made ourselves comfortable and waited for the fireworks to start. Meanwhile, crowds of people below us were eagerly trying to find their own spot.



After waiting for an hour, I noticed that the temperature was dropping. I only had on a t-shirt and everyone else had blankets and jumpers on! Wasn't this suppose to be summer? Not Autumn yet? Anyway, I soon warmed up with a nice cup of hot chocolate from the minikitchen - thanks! :)

Well, the fireworks mainly consisted of red, blue and white colours. Gee, I wonder why?

From our place, Sean's work is about a 10min drive. But on that Tuesday night after the fireworks, it took us an hour and a quarter to get home!!!! Sean estimated that it would only take us 15 mins in the traffic to go half a block!