Everyone goes to the park and has a picnic or a barbeque and watches the firework displays. It is a wonderful day do be American, but a bad day to be British. In keeping with the customs, Chip, Eddie, Clarice and I, accompanied by Clarice's estranged cousin, went to Civic Centre park on Sunday the 3rd to watch Colorado Symphony perform a concert of patriotic songs and set off fireworks. Civic Centre Park is beautiful, it has the state capitol building at on end, the city and country buildings (town hall) at the other, the business district of Skyscrapers to one side and the museum and library on the other. In short it it a very beautiful park surrounded by the most powerful buildings in the state! And they're shooting ordinance off them!
Well.....kinda. When you guys here the term "fireworks display" the image of the end of tattoo/festival or Hogmanay in Edinburgh where they play an entire symphony or two with fireworks going off in time with the music for the duration of the half hour. Well here it was more of an hour and a half of music then a 9 min display. Thats right, 9 whole mins of fireworks! But it was actually very cool and the music was well worth the evening.The next day we went up to Cheyenne to Eddie's parents ranch, where they were
But there are plus sides and negative sides to every situation. I finally got to meet the rest of Clarice's family and eat many, many hotdogs and hamburgers! On the flip side, spending an anti-British holiday in a house filled with 90% Republican (i.e. Anti Immigration and devoutly against foreigners in general) was quite.......interesting? Fortunately my winning personality smoothed the way!
Yes, my ultra-conservative family hates immigrants - but not you Andrew, (they say,) you are not like other immigrants. Sometimes we bite our tongues so hard we leave holes! Aside from insensate conservatism though, they are a loving and welcoming family and they do know how to put on a shindig! There were upwards of 35 to 40 people there and enough food for an army!
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