4th of July fun

Yesterday of course was the 4th of July and that meant lots of fireworks all across the ole USA. This year my wife and I decided to stay in Tampa instead of going to South Florida. We stayed in Tampa last year too but that was more because my father was visiting us and he wanted to see some fireworks which is why he came at that time.

Yesterday was a good day though, it started off kind of slow but started to pick up as the World Cup kicked off one of their semi final matches with Italy winning 2-0 in double over time. Of course my italian friend Lucy had to call me and gloat that Italy made it to the World Cup finals. Next up was a home made lunch from my wife. She decided to cook us some burgers and chips and they were absolutely awesome. She made them really thick too and added my two fav's on a burger........ cheese and bacon! MMMMMM

We followed that up by heading over to Safety Harbor which is small town really close to where we live since we live close to the Tampa city limits. We arrived pretty early for the fireworks because my wife said that I would have trouble finding parking if we went later. Turns out she was right because it was definately challenging finding parking in Safety Harbor. There were little lots here and there charging $5.00. I certainly wasn't having any of that. After a little roaming around, we found some good parking on the street for free. By the time we parked and found a spot it would be another 2.5 hours until the start of the fireworks. To pass the time we listened to the band that was playing, they had reggae and more traditional american music playing, and of course we had to get some funnel cake and soda. What was really cool was that they had an Outback tent set up selling appetizers. If we had only known we wouldn't have eaten lunch so late since we weren't expecting good food at the fireworks area. The display that night was pretty good. They had all these patriotic marching band songs playing in the back ground and I actually knew most of them which surprised me. After the fireworks were all finished up, we began the long walk back to the car and had to find an alternate way home. The town is really small and has only two main roads. Luckily one of them lead to this major roadway in Pinellas so getting home wasn't so bad. Ahh gotta love 4 day weekends, hope I have another one of those sometime soon.