After our
hike earlier in the day, Nick and I decided to brave gasworks park for the fireworks that night. Neither of us had been before. Lets just say we are glad we went once, but I don't think we'll try it again. There are sooo many people. We paid some guy $15 to park in his yard so we wouldn't have to deal with trying to park somewhere, so we actually got a pretty close parking spot. we walked down to the park and eventually claimed a spot for ourselves on the hill. Then we only had to wait 3 more hours till the show. We people, watched and read, and listened to really, really loud music blasting from the speakers. By the time the fireworks started there were so many people packed in there, there wasn't any room to move. I got stepped on quite a few times. We also almost had a fight break out next to us when a punk kid thought he was cool by smoking pot and then blowing it in people's faces when they asked him to stop. Then the guy next to us threw water at him. Many words were thrown about, that I won't type here. But, luckily it just stayed at words. Here are some pics of our day. The view of the Seattle skyline from Gasworks park is one of my favorites, other than coming in on the Bremerton ferry at night. All in all, probably one of the best fireworks shows I've seen, although I could do without all the people.
Here you can see the stage and not too many people here yet. This is just a very small portion of grass that will be filled though.
People were flying paper kites they had made. I think all those kites are actually only 2 or three people. They had them tied to each other and kept letting out more line.
One of my favorite views of Seattle. mostly i think seeing it when I drive into the city over the I-5 bridge.
More people packing onto "Kite Hill".
A little bit later, just about dusk.
There was also a great sunset going on.
And a little bit later - the lights are coming on.
Lots more people starting to pack in.
cool pictures of whatever these things are that are all over Gasworks Park.
Night time shot.
It's hard to see just how many people were packed in here. Right before the fireworks started people who came later just stopped and stood in front of all the people who had been waiting hours. I was kinda miffed. But, after starting with the Star Spangled Banner everyone stayed standing anyway and we had a great view. We had too many pics of the fireworks so I just put them in a slideshow. You can pretend you were there watching. Enjoy!
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hey lisa, good to catch up w you on here. looks like you had a much more patriotic 4th than i did. i was running a training for male reproductive health workers...
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