Top of the world July 5, 2007 ~ 9:44 am
Posted by Julie in : In Da Hood, Urban Family , trackbackHaving the 4th of July fall on Wednesday is just weird. It was like having a little taste of the weekend mid-week, and then having it all ripped away from you, like Lucy does with Charlie Brown’s football. I spent a lovely afternoon in a Bed-Stuy community garden with friends, and then we moved to the roof of their brand new apartment (they’re signing the papers on it today) to watch the fireworks. With a panoramic view of Manhattan from Midtown to the South Street Seaport, it was the best fireworks viewing spot I’ve found so far, and I have been to a fair amount of them. South Street Seaport was actually the best view overall, but we had to stake out spots early in the day and getting out afterwards was murder. Irene and Tumi’s apartment was no fuss: show up, climb the ladder to the roof, hold some cardboard overhead to keep the rain off all of us and the baby.
For the record, Samang was unimpressed by the fireworks. She slept through them.
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Urban Enjoyment is increased exponentially by the clutch locales of good friends’ residences. Or perfect strangers will often do, but they are often leary of letting you atop their roof.
The Wife and I were really screwed up yesterday too. It felt more like a Sunday. We kept forgetting there was half a week left.
I got to see a fireworks display from a roof after I gig I played. That was pretty cool.
Mother Nature had her own fireworks display and rained ours out for the 2nd year in a row. I much prefer MN anyway. I’ll be posting beading pics in the next couple of days.
After having just been in NY, I can almost picture all of that. It sounds great.
You will love this YouTube thing making fun of shrub and his gal rice. It’s on this guy’s blog (I don’t know how to direct link to YouTube)
http://lonegreysquirrel.blogspot.com/index.html
We had local(neighbors and ours) fireworks wednesday, and the town is doing the big show Saturday. Weirdness. But I’ll have to deal with all the mess of traffic to get a great view. Our town is filled with hills and trees so you almost HAVE to go.
We’ve always had good fireworks here, but this year they sucked big time! I don’t know if it was because the dew point was so high or what, but those suckers weren’t going off right. Oh well. We enjoyed the parade earlier in the day which was the highlight (and ironically this is my fourth 4th of July in the town and just found out about the annual parade this year). Never been to a parade tossing out bottles of water and Flav-O-Ice popsicles. We left with about 5 pounds of candy, too.