4th of July

With CK in town for work, we decided to find a good place to watch fireworks. We sort of decided late in the day, and ruled out the beach (too crowded) and outside of Disneyland (always crazy, but probably worse on the 4th). We decided to drive up to Fullerton and go to the fireworks show put on at Fullerton High School, which is ironically the same football stadium that all of my high school football games were played in and where my graduation took place. I hadn't been back since. Inside the stadium a band played and there were several delicious looking food stands (with lines of people to go with them), as well as jugglers and lots of people camped out to watch the fireworks. After exploring, we decided to sit outside the stadium for the actual fireworks so we'd have a little bit better chance of getting back to the car.

When the fireworks started, Sofia was terrified and clung to CK while burying her head into his neck. We'd planned on going to In-N-Out after the fireworks, so at one point she was hiding and then said "Can we go to In-N-Out NOW?" Finally, after a minute or two we started telling her about how beautiful each one was and she finally started stealing glances, which soon turned into all out excitement for what she saw. By the time it was over she was telling everyone sitting around us (who obviously saw the same thing), how big and colorful and fun the fireworks were! The rest of the night she talked about them and for days kept asking if we could watch them again that night. Disneyland is only a few miles from Mom's and they actually have fireworks every night, but we figured that didn't necessarily need to be shared with Sofia, or else she'd want to go EVERY night. She loved it!

Heading to the stadium from our car


Watching the band and all the people


A juggler with VERY long legs


Hanging out....


With Mommy


Sofia at the beginning and first few minutes of the fireworks


Discovering how beautiful and fun the are!