July 6, 2009: Boston Fireworks

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

It was hot, humid and elbow to elbow crowds. Never need to do that again.

This has been my experience with every fireworks show, ever. I really, really just don't understand the appeal, at all.

[Stormieweather]

The fireworks I attended was the usual one, with the fireworks being set off over the intercoastal waterway. It looked a bit like this one...at first.

However, there wasn't really any air moving, so the smoke sort of hung in the air and the debris rained down on the crowd (ie: incl me and family). By the finale, the smoke was so thick, you couldn't really see much of the actual 'sparklies'. Never had that happen before. I didn't hear of anyone getting burned, seemed the debris was just ashy crap by the time it got to us.

[kisrael]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

This has been my experience with every fireworks show, ever. I really, really just don't understand the appeal, at all.

It's fireworks! Duh.

Either you intrinsically get the appeal of beautiful lights in the night sky and fun pseudo-scary big noises (along with a kind of facile patriotism and sort of shared group enjoyment/camaraderie with the masses around you, and possibly just a nice excuse to chat and hang with friends (no not that you need one)) or you just see feel the crowds, heat, drunken jerks, time spent, and (in some cases, though this is the first year I'd ever noticed) smoke + debris.

Kayaking to fireworks is a real synergy, either activity I'd do on its own, probably, but the mutual justification was terrific. (Plus, the water wasn't nearly as crowded as the land...)