I vote you do a little of both.....

Head down to Pearl (take some pic, please) and enjoy yourself.
Then when you get a little tired head home. Grab your beach stuff and head down to watch the fireworks.

It'll be a long day down there and getting out of crowd when your tired is difficult.
So, just head out early and enjoy the nice fireworks with your sweetie wrapped around you!

What ever you do my dear...enjoy it!

hmm... that sounds like too much in one day for me, but good idea (my mom agrees with your idea)... one event is pretty tiring. i guess that's why i was going with one or the other...

hmm... (still thinking)... i guess i'll ask Matthew what he wants to do...

I have watched the fireworks over the ocean in San Diego and that was the most beautiful fireworks I ever did see, so I vote you go see fireworks. If you want to go a little early to pick a good place, have Matthew help you pack a picnic and go down and have a romantic dinner of sand filled sandwiches and wine or been (do they allow alcohol on the beach?) That's what I would do if I was there.
Since I'm NOT there and since it's just me and the furkids today and tonight, I have decided to drive over to get Chinese and sit on the floor (for as long as my body will allow) and play with the kids. Then watch movies.

Tonight hamburgers and corn on the cob with fresh watermelon, and then will watch the fireworks program on TV - Washington DC program, Macy's fireworks on NBC, and then Boston Pops on CBS, plus will watch the fireworks from the Queen Mary, Home Depot Center and neighborhood. It is illegal to shoot them off in the city that I live in and still folks bring them in. One of my dogs is scared of them so we will keep her in the basement tonight until 11:00 p.m. or so.

HAVE NO-ONE ALL ALONE HAVE TO STAY CLOSE TO DOG & CAT THEY ARE BOTH SO UPSET IT IS BROAD DAYLIGHT & PEOPLE ARE SHOOTING OFF NOISE MAKER & CANNONS THEY ARE STICKING TO MY LEG WON'T LAY DONWM UNLESS I;'M IN THE ROOM FOLLOWING ME ! DOG IS PANTING LIKE SHEIS GOING TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK! SO IT A GOOD THING!
ONE YEAR WE WENT TO FIRE WORKS LEFT DOG HOME TEEN DAUGHTER CAME BACK TO HOUSE TO GET BLANKET & FOUND OUR BACK SLIDING DOOR OPEN & EDGE BY LOCK ALL BROKEN UP! THEY WENT ACROSS TO NEIGHBOR THINKING SOMEONE COULD STILL BE IN HOUSE=CALLED POLICE & FOUND THE DOOR HAD BEEN SCRATCHED OPEN & DOOR HANDLE HAD CHEW MARKS ON IT!
THE DOG FLIPPED OUT & TRIED TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE! SHE SOME HOW FLITTED THE LOCK UP CHEWING & SCRATCHING!
SO I KEEP HER W/ME NOW! THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON NOE FOR 1WEEK CITYS DUE THEM ALL ON DIFFERENT DAYS BEFORE THE FOURTH!
I HATE IT!
DETROIT HAS SOME GREAT ONES ON THE RIVER! AWH SOME BUT I'M TIRED OF THE NOISE NOW ITS ENOUGH!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA
I WISH EVERYONE HAS A GREAT TIMEWHATEVER YOU DO!
BUT I STILL HAVE TO GIVE MY FUR BABYS A VALUIM & GET IN BED W/ THEM & THROW THE COVERS OVER I HEADS! iTS ONLY 6PM IN MICHIGAN & THEY ARE GOING NUTS SOUNDS LIKE WE ARE IN A WAR ZONE!

well i ended up staying home... i still dyed my hair red white and blue, tho! lol

i went to the beach for a swim in the afternoon. it was then after i came home tht i dyed my hair. i'll post some pics later. then mom and i made some baked garlic wings, mmm.... drank some beer and just hung out.

i was gonna walk down to the beach for the fire works but noticed that this 4th has been an odd one of mostly silence.... usually there are fire works going off the entire month of July here! but not this time... so i canceled even going down to the beach... there were a few that went off but not many at all. plus i felt so tired for some reason.

i figured that there were 2 reasons why it must be so quiet...
1. every one is broke thanks to the economy (and all the job layoffs) so no-one could afford to buy the fire works.
2. maybe they didn't set much off in case Kim Jong Il was gonna shoot some missiles our way despite he had turned the ship around

not sure which one it could be or maybe both... in the end around 10 last night i did hear some go off... but not much. i felt stupid and figured maybe i should have gone down to the water anyways.... oh well... maybe next year

happy birthday America!

what did everyone else do??

they went on till 2am & started all over again today still not done!
the dog & cat are still trembling!& glued to my legs
happy birthday but glad its over=poor guys that have PTSS i can't imgine how i would servive in a war zone!
"GOD" BLESS" OUR PEOPLE KEEPING US SAFE!

I'm too late to vote but I for sure would have voted for dying your hair. Very patriotic.

I went down to Pasadena and had lunch at In-n-Out - protein style.

If you don't know about In-n-Out, it's one of the coolest things in California.

Then I came home and watched 3 sanctioned fireworks shows from my backyard while keeping an eye on my self-entitled neighbor's un-sanctioned, drunken idiot-run, totally illegal, pyro-fest. (lots of bottle rockets and Roman Candles in the dry desert wind)

No fires this year but we watered the day before and had the hoses primed just in case.