I have memories of past 4th of July celebrations being very hot and humid. This year, however, the weather was very mild and cool. I think most of us even wore pants that day! Pants in July in Maryland?! :)
In the morning, we went to lunch in a near by town called La Plata, and then went mini golfing. We had not been mini golfing in years, so it was fun to take the kids! It was an 18 hole mini golf course, which honestly was just 9 holes too many with little kids, so we stopped at 9 and called the outing a success. Easton slept through most of the first 9 holes, but then woke up hungry at hole 9. The timing worked out great!
We went home after that and got some food ready for a friend's BBQ that we were attending that night. I was in charge of pico de gallo, and thinking that it would be eaten up, made a TON! We had pico coming out of our ears for days after that though, and everything in the fridge took on the smell it seemed. :)
We had talked about going down town to see the fireworks, but decided that might be a bit of an undertaking with a small baby, so we opted to see the fireworks from Bolling Air Force base which is straight across the river from downtown. It seemed like a lot of people had the same idea because the place was packed! We found a nice spot on the grass overlooking the river and sat down and awaited the fireworks. They were pretty neat, from what we would see. That building with the smoke stacks in the first picture below actually blocked the majority of them. It was still neat though. A lot of people in surrounding areas were shooting off fireworks as well, so I don't feel like we were cheated in seeing good fireworks. It was kind of chilly, so we wrapped the kids in a blanket and hoped they stayed warm. Easton was a happy camper the whole time. I fed him once and then he was good until we got home that night.
As we were driving back that night to Waldorf, we noticed there were a TON of people parked off of 495 watching fireworks which seems really dangerous! Watching fireworks on the side of a major highway that has millions of travelers on it in one day does not seem like the best idea, but maybe that is just me. There were even lots of kids there! It was really unsettling to me I guess since I still remember that detail.
This photo collage was from earlier in the day I guess. It was listed being taken on July 4th, so it makes the cut :) Deagan has always enjoyed holding his brother!
