Things that Scare Me.

This past weekend I had my Sibs (sister and two brothers)down. We went and watched both firework shows in Philly. The best was Saturday night at Penn's landing. The music of the Philly Pops along with the water and crowd made it an amazing experience for all four of us. All three of my Sibs think I'm crazy for living in a city and sometimes I think they might be right, definably after what happened on Sunday night.

Sunday we were all a little slow getting moving. I woke up slowly, but was up stairs to look in on the boys. Theo was throw across his bunched up sleeping bag in a way that looked like it had been staged and could not have been very comfortable. While Richard was half sticking out of his sleeping bag rather cute and very asleep. Soon we were all up and getting breakfast and off to see the 4th of July day Parade. We got to see the wonderful hour special before with the ringing of the bell and some rather amazing music. Than the parade started, although interesting, it was rather dragged out and unorganized and long. We than walked towards the Art Museum and had lunch then went back to my apartment. I took a very nice too short nap and the boys and Audrey watch The Great Race (a great old time movie courtesy of Netflix).

Sunday night we again left for the fireworks. We arrived just before 8pm. We waited 3hours for the show to begin, Richard falling asleep and all of us rather itchy from the dry grass we were sitting on. The show was great, bigger than anything we see at home, although not as cool as Saturday night. We picked up and joined the crowd of people walking across the bridge and westward on Spring Garden. When we were only about 4 or 5 blocks away from my apartment, there was a bang (which I thought was fireworks) and people started to run past us. The four of us quickened or pace. Than this morning I find out that there was a shooting on Spring Garden probably only five minutes after we had walked past. Talk about Scary. And to think that I was naive enough to think it was just people stupidly setting off fireworks like they had been doing all night. At least no one was hurt.