The 4th of July has always been one of my favorite holidays!! Ever since I can remember, the day would start off with the 4th on Broadway parade and street fair, then off to the grandparent's house. It was one of the few times our entire family would get together, spend a ridiculous amount of money on fireworks, and stay out til 3am popping them...yes, we were 'those people' and dang proud of it! Unfortunatly, living in HI has made it very hard to continue with that tradition, so we've tried our best to start our own. :) We headed out Schofield Barracks Army Base for their 4th of July Spectacular. It's usually pretty uneventful, there were some games, some food, rides, and a few vendors, oh...there was a wedding lol!! My favorite part is the sponsor tent...nothing like grabbing some free pens and keychains ;) After a couple of hours, we headed back home for a little rest and to get out of the sun for a little bit. For the fireworks show, we made our way down to Hickam Air Force Base. There were so many people there! We managed to find PRIME seating somehow, right by the water and no one in front of us!! We set up our chairs, grabbed some dinner, and enjoyed the night's entertainment, David Cook (winner of American Idol season 7). I don't really know a lot of his songs, but he did some covers and was actually really good live. He wrapped up with "The Star Spangled Banner" and that began the fireworks display. Man, they, by far, have the best fireworks display I've seen! It was pretty awesome! Rob and I realized that this was our 3rd and final 4th of July in Hawaii so that made us enjoy the moment even more. They lasted about 15 minutes, which to me was fine! We packed up and off we went. Wow...remember me mentioning "there were so many people there"?? Well, imagine all those people leaving at the same time! Talk about crazy traffic, we were in the parking lot trying to get out for an hour! Lucky for us, we packed enough goodies for the kids to stay fed and entertained and it really wasn't all that bad. That pretty much sums up our 4th. I cannot wait to be back on the Mainland next year! God willing, we'll be in Texas, at Grandma and Grandpa's house blowing stuff up til 3 am haha! Here are some pics from the festivities! God bless the USA!
This was a beautiful statue dedicated to the fallen Tropic Lightning Soldiers
on Schofield Barracks
The dogtags of some of the fallen
Me and Ilah being silly :)
Ilah waiting for fireworks...it really wasn't thaaat chilly lol!
B was excited to see the fireworks!
My littles enjoying the show
Beautiful!
