::july the fourth part 2::

We had a great day of swimming, watching the hot dog eating contest, a little running for me, a little bike riding for Kris and some hamburgers.
When dusk fell it was time for some fireworks to finish off the day right. They boys were so excited because we haven't done any sort of fireworks for ages. Maybe since Max was a brand new baby. They're not illegal here but they just don't sell them--probably because of the fire risk. Anyway, Kris was out of town and found some sparklers and a few other things. I found smoke bombs and pops at Target so we were well supplied. We did have kind of a strange assortment of stuff, but at least we had stuff.
Lucy and I took a seat and watched the proceedings.



Sandy was very very excited about the smoke bombs. He kept calling them smoke balls.

He jumped and danced around in the smoke until the moment when he got some in his mouth--yuck.



It was great except that the smoke kept blowing right on Lucy and I of course.
Then we took a break for smores, which were delicious as always. I think they were Sandy's first smores.


The firecrackers were too scary, so we didn't do many of those. Well, if you're Sultan all of it was too scary. He wouldn't come out of the front gate to the driveway.
Kris had some of those little tank fireworks to do next. The boys thought they were really fun. They make me nervous because they roll around, but it's true, they are fun.


Then we tried these weird tall fountain things and realized they shot way up in the air. So we put the rest of those away. No forest fires for us.
It was cool looking though.

One more part, coming up as soon as I can make it happen!!