Happy Fourth of July!

Today will be a busy one for us. We're traveling up to Ventura County to do what most families in Orange County can't legally do - shoot off fireworks. We'll spend most of the day in Santa Paula, but as evening comes on, will venture over to my wife's cousin's house in Fillmore where it is still legal to shoot off fireworks. We'll pick up a big box of the safe-and-sane stuff like I used to use as a kid and let my kids have an old fashioned Fourth of July experience.


In honor of the day, I'll leave you with this, taken on my recent trip to New York: