Post by Sporlo on Jul 6, 2007 0:19:04 GMT
Ok, so this will be the (end of the) 2nd through the 5th (today)
Monday, July 2nd:
Well, I already told you about Monday a bit in my last blog. Anyways, at the night time, we went to Ribfest, which is a fest in my city where you eat ribs and other good food and listen to bands. It started on Saturday I think, and it ended on the 4th of July. Well, there I had a pulled pork sandwich, a roasted cob of corn, and a cup of lemonade. It was pretty fun. Also, after Ribfest, I finished reading The Amber Spyglass. I STAYED UP TILL 1:15 IN THE MORNING TO FINISH IT!!! OMG I WAS SUCH AN IDIOT! Well, it was a great book though. The ending was very
but very . So yea, you should read the series Tuesday, July 3rd:
Um... I don't really remember much today. Well, I went to Track practice in the morning, then I didn't do much the rest of the day.
BUT, at the night, we shot some fireworks cuz it was the 3rd, and it's normal to do fireworks on the 3rd and the 4th
. So basically all we used were some bottle rockets (illegal but fun) and my dad threw a bunch of firecrackers (so dangerous but so fun and illegal too). I wish we had roman candles (illegal) cuz they're great too. But we used up our roman candles last year. Halfway through my bros friend (our neighbor) (kinda my friend too, but he's my bros age and a bit older) came over with us to launch some bottle rockets.Wednesday, July 4th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!
Today my dad didn't have work, so he was home all day today! My dad did some mild house work during the day, and I went to Goatee Guy's house for a while. There we played SSBM the whole time, and later Darkace came over too. Goatee Guy's parents are legal freaks, so I didn't mention we had fireworks to do later that night
. Anyway, I went home after a while, and my family had dinner.At 5, my sister went with some friends to Ribfest for dinner. Me, my parents, and my bro then went to Ribfest JUST for the fireworks later on.
The Ribfest fireworks display was GREAT! They had some cool new 'works to show off this year
(darn, I can't find the fireworks cost or # of shells 
I'd assume the display cost more than Lonestar's, cuz my city is huge and a suburb of Chicago; Chicago has ONE of America's best fireworks displays)So, when we got home, my sister had one of her friends stay over for a while.
Within 10 minutes, me, my sister, her friend, my brother, and his friend, were fireing all kinds of fireworks! We had firecrackers, bottle rockets, sparklers, smoke bombs, smoke candles, bunch a different types of popping things, snappers, etc. One really fun thing we did, was take a bunch of snappers (the things you throw on the ground and it snaps) and sprinkled a ton all over the street! So EVERY SINGLE CAR that went by caused a bunch of snaps to go off! lol one car actually STOPPED wondering what happened
but then kept going . Also, every once in a while, my dad would sneek up on us, light a pack of firecrackers, then throw them near us! lol everybody jumps and screams cuz they're so loud and bright! What was amazing, was that we used up EVERY SINGLE FIREWORK WE HAD! And that's a LOT! We had between 50 and 100 bottle rockets, about 50-100 firecrackers, TONS of sparklers, and lots of other random small things!It was really fun, because there were these people behind us, who had SUPER illegal fireworks! They had the ones that you only see in liscensed displays (like Ribfest)!! They had the big boom ones! (wow, they must be rich too!). Well, it was fun cuz there were also like 3 other houses with illegal stuff like us, and all've us kept fireing our stuff and it was like war. one house launched somehthing, then we would rush quickly to get 2-3 bottle rockets up real fast, then they would fight back and we're like "well, looks like they won!" lol we had such a great time. It was so fun with the firecrackers too. They're really dangerous too, which made it all the more exillerating! We made such a mess too near the street with TONS of wrappers
;Dby the time we used everything up, it was midnight! lol this year was one of my favorite 4th of Julys in a while!
Thursday, July 5th:
well, not much today. So, I woke up at 9:30, sat in bed for an hour, then did stuff for a LONG while, took a shower and came downstairs at 12:30. WHOA, yea, i had a lazy morning
Well, I ate breakfast AND lunch at the same time, then I went outside to pick up our bottle rocket sticks. One year my dad paid us a buck for every stick we found
. Oh, also, earlier, my bro and his friend found about 5 unexploded firecrackers and blew em up (they also collected as many sticks as they could too). When I looked, I found like 15 MORE sticks (they're terrible searchers), and about 7 more unexploded firecrackers (yep, they officially suck at looking). Unfortunately, only two would actually explode. Two of them ignited, but just made a "whish"ing sound and then faded (they were crushed by a car). The other 3's fuses just wouldnt ignite, so I threw them back on the street. Since one of the firecracker's fuses were really short, I took a thin candle, put it in the ground, then put a firecracker next to the candle and lit it . it was cool. The candle burned down, then POP!!!!!!!So, after my time outside, I came in and spent too much time playing SSBM. I spent half of that in Sound Test and listening to the music (SSBM music is awesome). After that, I was INSANELY bored and then I went on the comp. I had Pigs in a Blanket for dinner! YUM! And now I'm typing this.
So that was how my 4th of July went!!
