Had my usual great time at the Fourth of July parade. My driver Daniel Rude (whose parents bought the right to drive the golf cart for the Village School PTO) and his sister staffed my car and threw some serious candy into the crowds. I walked about 2/3rds of the route, and saw lots of friends!The highlight was a bucket of candy falling out of the cart on Washington and kids diving on it in a frenzy!
The fireworks were something else again. One of the largest crowds in along time, no wind and a slow cadence on the shells meant a huge smoke cloud, and the tilt of the fireworks slightly towards the crowd meant ash was coming into the crowd, lots of it! My white shirt was spotted everywhere.
But the finale was started by a dud shell that shot out sideways igniting the whole finale into the lake! If you can imagine a grand finale, majestically towering over you, now visualize one 15 feet off the ground coming right at you. We saw people moving afterwards but we also saw some ambulances as well, so hopefully that was a precaution, nothing more.
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