Lovely 4th

We had a really nice day yesterday. It was my husbands birthday, well not his actual birthday, that's tomorrow, but the day we celebrated it, at my mom's with a barbeque and corn, watermelon, etc. Then we, the kids and hubby and I, went to the Fort Vancouver fireworks display. Our usual vantage point from Esther Short Park has changed over the years as new condos have gone up and changed the view. It was kind of comic. All these folks were lined up in their lawn chairs along what appeared to be the correct line of sight for the fireworks, as soon as the first one went off everyone picked up and moved about 40 feet to the left in unison, as the explosion occured right behind the beautiful new building slightly to our right. It was ok, we could still see, but the mass shift to the left was cute. That's Portland for you, rapidly shifting to the left. I made kettle corn and brought koolaid for the kids (and big kids). It was a good show. It has been a few years since we went to the Fort show, we used to live over there and it was easy, now it's a drive. Still worth it. God bless America.