Cookerati

Every Saturday before July 4th, our township puts on an awesome fireworks display. It’s a big event here and the treat it as such. They open the field at 4:30 and provide music from local bands, food via tents from local restaurants, inflatable amusements such as slides and jumping castles for the kids and lots of folks to chit chat with.

My family goes every year – my son looks forward to two things the most: Fireworks and ice cream. My husband and son like to wander the grounds to find fun things to do and I stay back and “watch our stuff.” Generally this means I get an hour or so of uninterrupted reading.

We like to have an evening picnic for the firework festivities. We mostly bring fresh fruits and salads. I don’t know why, but we rarely bring junk food along. For some reason watermelon and peaches go better with the 4th of July theme than chips or salsa. Some families go all out with the dinner spreads but we generally barbecue before we go, arriving at 7:30 or so. Instead we bring ice cold watermelon, sweet peaches, grapes so delicious it’s hard to eat just one, and cherries, pitted before we left so we don’t have to take time to do it there.

We brought friends this year, well actually family with a cousin our son’s age. On Thursday we’ll be visiting their town’s firework’s display. And yes, we’ll be packing plenty of fruit.