Fireworks downtown. I didn’t get many photos, but we walked quite a way, talked to a Minneapolis Kids teacher, played with sparklers, and complained about not getting light sabres before the actual fireworks that we watched from the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
Helena did get some pictures with her iPod, including one of the Statue of Liberty.
“On a hot, hot day in July…” the kids sang all day.
The fourth was terribly hot – it was still in the upper 90s when the fireworks began, but the kids were very, very good about trekking downtown and walking around on a very crowded Stone Arch Bridge to watch the fireworks. This was the first year that we watched from the Stone Arch Bridge, rather than the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
The kids were happy with their slushies that we got on the way and their glow necklaces. Ada found out that one shouldn’t gnaw on the glowsticks
All the kids were excited for the fireworks, but once they began, Ada was scared. Helena thought that she’d be better if she sat, so they did, and then everything apparently was fine.
This was the moment that Ada had been talking about all day.