2007 Fireworks

Ok well, there's a little story here. Of course my ramblings never make much sense to anyone except me.

This is my composite pic from last year.

I lucked out in my housing situation since the fireworks show was only about a mile away. (which is excellent cause I totally hate crowds, dealing with parking and those random loud dumb drunk public people). Last year I had a completely different life, in a completely different world (like any other geek girl fairy tale it was far far away) and that fireworks show was literally in my back yard, this year the show was up on my roof and slightly farther away.

I looked up the show online, it started @ 9:35 so I headed out with my little camera. As I walked down the hallway, it was strangely more quiet than usual. I headed up three flights of stairs to the rooftop lot and I hear music. As soon as I opened the doors it was like a mini tailgating party. Except quieter. Sweet. The smell of hot dogs was in the air.

Since the entire area is concrete, some kids were snapping their bottle caps on the ground and just about every car had their doors and trunks open with the radios all in tune to the fireworks show. Occasionally you'd hear neighboring complexes erupt in applause and see the occasional photo flash. I felt out of place since I seemed to be the only one out there alone, but no one bothered me so that feeling went away quickly.

I took 108 shots, about the same as last year. How strange.

The show lasted about 30 minutes and as soon as the finale was over, everyone that was on the roof got back in their cars and went back to their lives. I've never seen ANY cars on the 7th level until today. I love going up there once a week and seeing just how FLAT it is here. The rooftop here was what sold me on my housing choice. If it weren't for the weather, I'd probably be up there more often.

Watching the fireworks from my vantage point reminded me of the one year a friend of mine snuck me up into a government building (post 9/11) and we had our own private roof top show right on the San Diego Bay overlooking the Embarcadero. It was a beautiful show.

After seeing tonights fireworks I really miss seeing the reflection of the explosions on the water. There are enough lakes here, its a wonder why don't they have the shows out on the water? Less of a fire hazard you'd thing? I didn't see the reflections last year because of where I chose to watch the fireworks so that's one positive ~ right? It made me not miss it so much.

I wanna know why they chose to have their festivities tonight instead of tomrorow? Wonder if its the same reason I can't buy wine @ the grocery store.