We had a great 4th of July. The highlight of the day (besides swimming at Rengstorff Pool) was the 4th of July concert at Shoreline Amphitheater. Each year the theater gives away 2000 free tickets to Mountain View residents. Bob was pretty much the front of the line! We arrived early and enjoyed picnic dinner on the lawn.
The show was the San Francisco Symphony, in conjunction with Radio Disney. How's that for contrast? Radio Disney did the pre-show including a performance by Amber Lily that Anthony just loved. At the end she threw wrist-bands out in the crowd. Meanwhile her mother handed one to Bob for Anthony because she thought he was so cute.
While generally the music was "accessible", with a California theme--some folk songs, some cartoon theme songs, with video, Anthony found the concert to be rather long. Mostly, he didn't understand why we had to sit through all this music stuff when he wanted to see the fireworks. (He was tired, but really, he wanted to see the fireworks!) A bag of cotton candy kept him entertained for a long time. He'd never had cotton candy before and was thrilled!
Finally, the fireworks came and he was CAPTIVATED. Fortunately he wasn't afraid of the noise at all. Well, he wasn't afraid of the noise from the safety of my lap. It was a great show and it was my first time seeing fireworks with live music!
One thing we did REALLY REALLY right. We rode our tandem bike with the trailer behind. It was still ridiculously crowded getting out, and the bike trail was crowded too. However, we arrived home 45 minutes before our next door neighbor and 75 minutes before another friend. (We still didn't get home until 11 pm.) I put him to bed with his cotton candy as I didn't have the energy to fight it, but I removed the candy when he fell asleep. First words out of his mouth in the morning were, "Where's my cotton candy?"
One thing we did REALLY REALLY right. We rode our tandem bike with the trailer behind. It was still ridiculously crowded getting out, and the bike trail was crowded too. However, we arrived home 45 minutes before our next door neighbor and 75 minutes before another friend. (We still didn't get home until 11 pm.) I put him to bed with his cotton candy as I didn't have the energy to fight it, but I removed the candy when he fell asleep. First words out of his mouth in the morning were, "Where's my cotton candy?"
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I think Ciaran has that t-shirt, too. Is it Old Navy? He calls it 'an american': didn't get the flag bit although he knew what a flag was before he understood that there were different ones!
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