4th of July

Nothing quite like our Country's birthday to bring out the people.  This year found us at Ocean Park a few miles up the peninsula from Long Beach, WA in a very small town and a very small parade!  Loved it though.  Think all the folks were there from all the small communities and although it wasn't a "hot" day it was ok - mid 70's.  They did have a few booths set up in the park with goodies for sale and everyone seemed to know the routine of bringing their own "stuff"... We enjoyed it; later walked down to our beach about 4 miles south of Long Beach proper and had the show of a lifetime right on the beach!  We were able to see the fireworks at Long Beach who spent about $25,000 for their display but oh my - the fireworks other people brought... and lit off right next to each other with no regard for who was downwind from them and it was a bit breezy.  We did see one little boy get burned but amazing not more people hurt.  Crazy but fairly safe.  Next day someone torched off a spot of dune grass - oops!  Not sure how the extinguished the flames but looks like they had a bucket brigade to the water and back.

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