Fourth of July 2014. Here are our obligatory fireworks pictures and our story.
So we didn’t want to go into the city or even find a good show because of the effort it often takes to get home. Hours to walk home to Brooklyn after the NYC fireworks display, the Hoaglands getting a hotel room to avoid the crowds after the White House display, Erin’s boss taking four hours to walk home – of course in retrospect, someone told us to just pull over on the side of the road near the display.
Our version? Avoid the crowds and see where no one else is going – Sheraton Tysons, formerly called the Sheraton Premiere, our favorite staycation site, and Erin’s favorite hotel in the area. The result? Suite on the 23rd floor, take-out, and the promise of the breakfast buffet and pool in the morning. So we sit down to eat and in the corner of our eye notice a fireworks display in the distance, like a sparkler – then another, and another, and another. Before we knew it there were twenty at any given time, most a glimmer far away like sparklers, but a couple pretty close, basketball-sized or so. With the lights off, and fireworks all around us, it was a pretty good way to spend a Fourth of July. Oh, the American Nepalese Association were having a convention, and the Elia went into her first pool in the morning. When we do Elia’s update, we will post pictures.