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Had an absolute wonderful time last night at fireworks! We went to Tangelwood to watch them, it is about a 45 minute drive but it is worth it. I am a huge fireworks fan and tend to be a bit picky when it comes to were I want to watch them, when I moved from Ohio I lost a really awesome place to see them....one that was pretty much a grand finale all the way thru it and the finale itself was so spectacular!! The whole way thru they would play patriotic music ...it was just great. The first few years I lived here I could not find anywhere that could even compare...not that they were bad or anything just not the same or as exciting! I could not expect that anyway, we are talking a place that is about 8 hours away! So I kept looking and eventually my sister and I found Tangelwood, I knew at once that it was the place! The fireworks were really good, though still not as grand as the one in Ohio but they were still worth seeing and enough that I deemed that the place I would go to see them.  Well do to circumstances we skipped a year, went and then skipped 2 years...though one of those years we happened to be in Ohio and got to see my favorite fireworks display of all =) Of course that same year we went to where my husband used to live in Ohio and seen the fireworks there as well and ....they were a little closer then I was comfortable with! In fact we ended up coming home with a HUGE chunk of  firework that had nearly hit us! It was scarey and took away from the fun of it all...I don't like watching hot ash from fireworks fall to the ground in front of me STILL HOT! Anyway The next year we went to yet another place for fireworks, they were ok but there were other more personal reasons to go along with the OK fireworks that i was not satisfied. Then we come back to this year, happy to be back at Tangelwood once again with my family.

With 3 kids coming along we had to leave late to get there, I was not real happy with that idea but I understood why my sister wanted to spend as little time there as possible....though it turned out to be great and actually we could have gone sooner and been just as happy! The biggest fear was the kids getting bored and fighting with one another, but there were tons of other kids there and our kids ran and ran, they had such a blast!!!! We had our sparkelers and other minimal fireworks (basically a more elaborate sparkeler)  and a mini picnic. We did get the treat of some people with better fireworks setting them off next to us, I have some pics of that and the kids with sparkelers that I may put up on my photos once I edit them to look better. Anyway It was an all around good time and I was happy with the fireworks. We did end up waiting to get out of there after for around an hour and a half or so, but thanks to our dvd player the wait wasn't bad. The kids were out by the time we got home at almost 12am and we were all VERY ready to go to bed!

Hope everyone had a fantastic Fourth!