Fireworks Fiasco

Starting July 24th 2009 and foward, David & I ran into each other a few times before we dated.  Last year you can see what I did on the 24th of July on an earlier post here: 7/24 Fireworks. But just to say, I happened to meet up with David last year during the fireworks at Liberty Park. Katie and I were supposed to meet up with the ward, and we called David to get directions and hook up. Well, little did I know - once he found out we were coming, he never found the ward group and just met up with us, so it was us 3. Fun night!

So, one year later we HAD to do it again now as married folks :). We parked around the same area and then also walked and stood right by the baseball field where the fireworks get let off. Last year my request was to be close to feel the vibrations - and it was the best. This year - we did the same thing!! About 10 minutes into the show one of the fireworks blew out. From that same pod of fireworks, it started a fire on those and sent the other fireworks INTO the crowds right around us!! At first the crowd was excited, but as soon as the fireworks started shooting into the crowds, the excitement turned into crazy "end-of-the-world" panic!! I quickly moved out from in front of David to his side, but we watched them shoot on both sides of us through the crowd and into the tree next to us, but nothing straight for us luckily! Only a few shot into the crowds before they got that pod of fireworks shut off. Sirens started and it took a few minutes to get the paramedics to the scene. The fireworks ended earlier and I was definitely scared that it may happen again. It took us awhile to get through the crowds and back to the car - and we wanted to see if anyone was hurt. I was still pretty shook up. We saw on the news later that 10 people were burned or bruised from the impact and that apparently this has happened 3 times in Utah this year and possibly the fireworks need more rules on keeping them held up.

We hadn't seen that before - still a fun tradition, just a bit more freakish!!  Here are our pictures before the craziness...  It took me like 12 pictures for my eyes to open.  It was so dark and then the flash was so bright that I just kept tearing up...hahah.  But we did get one finally :)