We spent the weekend with friends who live out of town. The fireworks were awesome! What would have (at least six years ago) been considered the finale in Grand Junction was just mid-show stuff! I saw "new" (to me anyway) fireworks too - they burst and look like chandeliers, yellow, and with green at the ends. Then the green things spread out and do more! Those are so cool!
We finally used an outdoor picnic blanket thing with waterproof backing that folds into a pillow/stadium seat cusion; we bought it a couple years ago. Ariel liked being on it with her daddy :o) I'm glad we had it -- our friends took a comforter for the other kids to be on, and it was damp and chilled before the show even began, but Ariel had fun being on it with them before the show anyway. It was incredibly humid with not even a slight breeze so that the smoke just hung in the air, and everything was wet with condensation by the time it was over, from Ariel's Snack-Trap to the stroller we borrowed from one friend for walking to the park.
Ariel was scared at first when the fireworks began, clinging to me and telling me to pick her up, but then Greg put the Stanley hearing protector headphones on her (that he'd bought for using the snow thrower) and held her close on his lap and then she was fine. He also laid her back so she could see everything without straining her neck trying to look up, and covered her up to her neck with his windbreaker because she was cold, even with her little pink sweater on. She looked very cute and no one got a picture of her that way, because we were all watching the show (and we hadn't even thought of taking our camera). Greg said the difference between men and women is that women enjoy seeing the fireworks, and men wish that they could be the guys who send them off!
Ariel talked about the noise, and how there were lots of colors, and even laughed at the fireworks that when they go off are like popcorn popping. One friend bought some glow sticks before the show, and his wife came and gave Ariel a pink one as a bracelet that he'd already activated so she said she wasn't sure how long it would last, but it was still glowing when I woke up and went to the bathroom around 4:15am.
Greg is so glad we brought those headphones and so am I, because without them Ariel wouldn't have enjoyed the fireworks (so we wouldn't have enjoyed them either!). Although the first couple after he put them on her were real loud and she told him she wanted to go inside :o) That's when he took her from me and held her close to him, so she felt protected and safe, I imagine.
To keep the mosquitoes at bay we bought those Off Clip-Ons. We wore them on the walk to the park and were not bothered by mosquitoes; after Greg and Ariel sat on our blanket one was buzzing him and he took the Clip-On off his belt and chased the mosquito away with it! (He said, "Ooh, they do not like that!" I think he chased a couple away from Ariel with it too.) It flew near me and wanted to land on me but just hovered between us because of my Clip-On! I didn't think Ariel was well-protected, especially on the walk there, but she got just one bite, on her head. Even with bug spray on mosquitoes land on me and buzz in my ear, but with the Off Clip-On there was none of that happening!
At breakfast with Greg's family Sunday morning Ariel was telling everyone about the fireworks, and how they were loud, and lots of colors, and went "pop pop pop" like popcorn. And that night we heard people shooting them off in the neighborhood; she asked, "What's that??" with her hands lightly over her ears, and when we told her "firecrackers" she said, "Colors! Go see outside."
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