I would love
to tell you I have some amazing pictures of our Capital Fourth of July
experience. However, I forgot the camera
when we headed out this morning!! This
experience is something you should do if you are in our nation’s capital for
the 4th of July – maybe once and with no kids. In order to get the very best seats you need
to be at the gate to the west lawn at 3:00.
We took the metro from Old Town Alexandria where Robyn dropped us off
and arrived at the west lawn at 4:00. We
got a good seat on the Capital steps (which I thought was pretty cool). Actually, that’s a bad choice of words it was
HOT!! We sat in 95 degree bright
sunshine for 4 hours. If Greg tells the
truth, he could have cared less about the fireworks, but he sat there because
he knew I really wanted to see them and he didn’t complain at all. I think he’ll probably remind me of that when
we are sitting in the broiling sun at some NASCAR race in the future. Thank goodness, we thought it might rain and
took umbrellas so we were shaded a bit from the sun.
There was a
pre-fireworks concert with Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow , Scotty McCreary and others which
was really good. This whole thing – the
concert and the fireworks are free so the place was packed as far as you could
see. That has to be a security
nightmare! Capital police and park
rangers were out in force and everything seemed to go well.
The real
challenge was getting back to Old Town on the Metro along with thousands of
other people. I’m not sure how many
people you can stuff into a metro car, but I think we might have exceeded the
record that night. We have a lot of new
very close friends.
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