4th of July

We went on a great trip for the 4th.... sadly, I forgot my camera ): We went to the UP to visit Mark's brother and had so much fun visiting family and going to visit many different waterfalls. Best of all, we went to the fireworks in Munsing. This was the first time for the kids to see fireworks. It stays light up there until about 10:30, so it was VERY late for the kids. We got our spot about 9:45 hoping they would start early, but by 10:15 AJ was yelling "When are we going to take a nap!?!" TK was happy as a lark.... of course she had her yellow blanket, so she did not have a care in the world. About every 20 minutes they would shot off a test one. AJ did not find these impressive or worth waiting for at all! Finally by 10:40 I convinced Mark to go get the car and we would just let the kids go to sleep in the car and we would wait for the show to get over and then follow everyone back to his brother's house. (We were about 30 min from their house and it is a wilderness out there!!!) By time we got them in the car the show started..... and so did the panic attacks for AJ. TK still did not care, but AJ, "They are coming at us, we are going to get hit. Mom, why are they doing that? Let's GO!" "Nana, give us the directions to Uncle Brent's house." "Dad, drive away!!!" After much hand holding and his cousin talking about how cool they were, AJ came around and decided they were fun.... as long as he was in the car. He has talked non-stop about them since and apparently it was a big hit with him. We will see about next year, at this point I don't know about any more nights that late.