Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy 4th of July!

manthan and i were so beat after the golf game...and ridiculously sweaty. i went ahead and grabbed a shower first and when i came down to the basement he was playing Halo 3 on his Xbox 360...i made him quit his game because i wanted to get moving to go to rich's for his 4th of July bash.

Going down the Atlantic City Express way the traffic got pretty crazy because of an accident. Not on our road of course going East but going West.
It looked pretty serious with ambulances, fire trucks, and a million cops. The cars in the accident were not too badly mangled so i'm guessing the injuries were not life threatening...because i'm an expert and all.
Arrived at rich's at about 5pm. i brought Heineken, pong balls, and fireworks. My pong game was horrible that day, must have been from being tired after golfing...
i wanted some fireworks that would be fun to light during the day...all i could find were smoke bombs. Apparently they don't make smoke bombs like they use to. i could make more smoke from a hookah than these cheap things.
A couple of the smoke bombs worked pretty well but most of them were just disappointing.
Took forever for the sun to go down. Wasn't until 9pm we busted out the sparklers. Rich was definitely smiling before i took the picture...but right before i take it he has to look like he's having a horrible time.
i was told to at least pick up sparklers. PA is so worthless for real fireworks. i ended up buying this thing called the "King Bling". It has diamonds on the outside of it so it had to be good, especially for 11.99 bones.
It actually wasn't that bad. Kind of fun to watch. Just wish it would have lasted longer.
The other lame firework i decided to get was the Pyro Perfection. With a name like that it had to be good, right? This bad boy was 30 bones...turned out it wasn't as cool as the King Bling. The only thing it had going for it was that it lasted about twice as long but just didn't have the "bling" that the King Bling had.
Some of the effects were cool though, but the money would have been better spent on 3 more King Blings.
One of rich's cool friends broke a beer bottle outside and he just happened to step on it and made his toe bleed a tiny bit. i thought it was pretty funny he was making such a big deal out of it and his dad, mom, a heather were all concerned about it so i decided to capture the moment.
manthan passed out kind of early. i stayed up the latest as usual. Everyone went to bed at 1am...i made manthan take the small couch since he wasn't even using the whole big couch.
This is abby/abigale, chocolate lab.. Not really sure what her whole name is but she is very cute. About 10 weeks old and already knows how to sit. Really missed daisy when i was playing with her. Ugh i want a new puppy...
Here is John in the drivers seat. i never thought this day would come. He's 22 and finally got his driver's license...i'm so proud of him.

1 comment:

KZ said...

best 4th ever? I think so. Also, i love how pissed I look in the background of the beer pong pic