The kids had been asking for fireworks, so we looked on-line and saw that the Indian Casino five minutes from my parents house was having fireworks at 9:00. So we loaded all the kids in the car and drove over. We got an amazing front row parking spot right in front of the stage. We couldn't believe our luck...maybe it was too good to be true. Didn't it seem odd that the parking lot was pretty empty?? A quick inquiry with security revealed the problem: the casino couldn't get permits due to the high fire risk.
"The fairgrounds have fireworks at 9:30," he offered. It was 9:18 and the fairgrounds were 15 minutes away, but we had three pre-schoolers expecting fireworks!
Mac sped through the backroads. We were looking for parking as the first BOOM! sounded over-head. So we turned on the hazards, double parked the car, and watched from the sidewalk right there.
Crisis averted...except we now had two 3 year olds that needed to pee "very badly." Liam was happy peeing on a tree, but Brooke is a bit more refined. Three stops later we finally found a place with a toilet she could use!
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Three years of Smith July 4ths:
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