Fireworks at the Fort

We came out to Fort Meigs for their Independence Day celebration in Perrysburg again this year.  We hoped to have time to let the kids ride some of the carnival rides, but the weather had other plans.  It has been raining alot over past several days, including a heavy drenching yesterday.  This left the park rather soggy, especially right in the middle of the carnival rides.  Not to mention the power cords for the rides running through the impromptu swamp.  No thanks.



Becky brought us a picnic lunch and we bought frozen dessert from an ice cream truck.  We made our way into the fort and set up our chairs with a great view of the sky above the Maumee-Perrysburg bridge which had been shut down for this evening's launch.  We played frisbee and chased bubbles.  We read, listened to the nearby band playing patriotic songs and settled in for the fireworks.



They seemed bigger and lasted longer than last year, whether because they really were or because the passage of time had shrunk last year's pyrotechnics in our minds.  It was an uncharacteristically cool night for July, but the extra clothes Becky brought on a hunch that we would need them kept us warm.  After the show we made our way through the swampy park (I found a dry path along the outskirts actually) in the dark to our cars.  Leaving Fort Meigs after the show was a pain again because we were forced by the police to turn to the right.  The main road was to the left, but the right led deep into a maze of residential streets.  We got lost in there for over an hour before stumbling onto a road that led us out.  We'll have to plan better next year.  Still, hard to beat fireworks seen from a fort.