Hi All,
Since this will be my last 4th of July in Arkansas I decided to drive to the 9 hole golf course and watch the Holiday Island community annual fireworks up close and personal. The entire performance was routine and repetitive until the finale. What I saw made me feel like I had died and gone to fireworks heaven. The finale was a masterful 15 seconds of visual art. Most finales I've seen in my life have seemed chaotic and unstaged. Not tonight. This finale felt more like a fireworks ballet than someone just shooting at random. There were fountains of red, white and blue acting as a continuous lighted base for the aerial action above. When I say above I should clarify because I want you to comprehend the full impact of what I saw. I was so close that I had to look straight up to take in the explosions. Some of the sparks were extenguishing very close to me. This was as close as one could safely be. I don't care how many displays you've seen in your life there is no substitute for being less than 100 yards from the action. I had Romeo in my arms and he wasn't all that happy with any of it, especially the finale. But, he's just a dog and what does he know, anyway? I would say they shot sky rockets at a rate of 5 a second for the entire 15 second finale. The sky was so bright you could have read a newspaper. To say it was a "rush" would be an understatement. It was the best fireworks experience I've ever had in my life. And to think I saw it here in little 'ole NW Arkansas and in one of the poorest counties in the nation. I wonder where I'm going to be this time next year?
Happy 4th,
John
