4th of July

Since everyone is posting their 4th of July recaps, I guess I'll post mine! Donny and I traveled to Washington D.C. for the day to celebrate. We did have a good time overall but really, a little planning would have gone a long way. We figured we could go to different museums, get something to eat and then watch the fireworks. What we didn't think about was that the museums close at 5:00 and the fireworks don't start until 9:15.

That is a LONG time with nothing to do. No shops were open. No restaurants were open. There were plenty of vendors on the street so we weren't going to starve but eating a hot dog takes about 2 minutes so...that still leaves about 4 hours. A couple of books and a deck of cards would have been made the afternoon much less stressful, that's for sure. By about 7:00 we were looking at each other and saying "Should we just go?" but after you've put in all that time, how could we go? Ugh...

Very nice fireworks though. After only seeing local town fireworks for all these years it's quite an event to see a real "big city" spectacle. Very impressive.