thunder

This weekend was Thunder. It is a very big deal in Louisville. It is one of the largest fireworks displays in the world. It is always two weeks before Derby and kicks off the Derby festival. It is an all day event. If the weather is nice people start arriving on the waterfront in the morning to set up their spot and to watch the air show. The air show is pretty cool and seeing how Camille loves airplanes I thought she would love it. Nope (her personality surprising me again). She liked watching the planes but didn’t like the loud noise that the planes made. She spent most of the air show with her head buried in John or I. This year we parked at a friend’s building and walked to the waterfront. We went with the Tasmans, Shumans, Masons, Woodcocks and St. Johns. All Av’s best friends where there (Blake, Jackson, Caroline and Sayree) so she was in heaven. We set up camp right by a nice park and had a picnic dinner. There was a small but tall hill right by us and the kids climbed that hill and then rolled down it at least a hundred times. This was the first time with the girls at an event like this that I was kind of stressed. It was so crowded at the park that each parent needed to watch only one kid. Not sure what we will do when we are out numbered. By 9 Av was done for. She had a melt down and it was time to go. We didn’t get to see the fireworks but it was cold by that time so I was not too disappointed. We got home and got the girls in bed to catch as much of them as we wanted to watch.