Can you really postpone a national holiday? Well it seemed that way in Montgomery County, Maryland, this year. Due to the Derecho (similar to a category 1 hurricane) that passed through Maryland the final week of June, all fireworks and Fourth of July festivities were postponed in order to prioritize electricity restoration to thousands of people.
As irony would have it, we have not been to see fireworks once in the seven years Josh and I have been married. However, Kate got her first experience with fireworks this spring in Disney, and she has been begging us to go again so Daddy can see them too. And this was the year we were going to load up and face the heat and masses to make those treasured family memories for Kate. That was until the fireworks got cancelled.
Luckily for Kate, today was Damascus Day, a few towns north of us. The festivities began last night with a parade and guess what?? FIREWORKS!! Since we are the flexible people we are known to be, we just celebrated the 4th on the 13th instead! It was a lot of fun...and a much cooler evening that it would have been on the actual 4th had the fireworks happened then. I think we might just make it a habit of seeing fireworks a week later...in Damascus.
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| Kate inching her way closer and closer to the curb so she doesn't miss a thing! |
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| Nana Linda and Papa Gallagher making sure we don't loose any kids. |
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| Waiting with open bags hoping for candy to land in front of them! |
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| Nathan had the best seats in the house...on Daddy's shoulders or in Papa's arms! |
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| Nathan LOVED the tractors! |
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