How To Truly Celebrate The 4th

So what is the best way to spend the Fourth of July? What I really want to know is what do people do with the first of of the day since no one goes to the relatives until mid afternoon. Who thought it would be cool to have the whole day off, seriously it should be people have the last half of the day off and then the first half of the 5th off. That way I can actually enjoy the fireworks.
The Prelude:
On our way to the family gathering at my aunt and uncle's house in Kent where it is legal to set off fireworks we pass the mecca for pyro maniacs. The Muckleshoot Indian reservation stand central. This picture does not even show a quarter of how many sstand there are. But yeah there are a lot. And my cousin's work at a firework stand and their rentor has a firework stand so pretty much we have the hook up. Which brings us to...
The Goods:
Yes, not only did we have a ton of fireworks, we had to make bigger ones. I guess it has become a tradition to make sparkler bombs. The boys don't like us girls to touch their precious sparklers. This year they had two cases of sparklers which is a ton. So I had to documents how to make your own. *Note names have been changed to protect individuals from the law since sparkler bombs are illegal. First get about 4 boxes off sparklers. Next you wrap them all up in one big clump with one longer then the rest to act as a fuse and wrap them in compression tape. And last you wrap it again with electrical tape and BAM you have a sparkler bomb. Later in the evening my cousin's friends and their friends came over and brought more fireworks. I guess at the stand they work at, the roof leaked and some of the stuff got "damaged" so thy couldn't sell it. Which meant they got to keep it all. Well it was a whole trunk full and the back seat too. This is when it was part way unloaded, we still had stuff in the house.
The Show:
What do boys do with sparkler bombs after they have made a zillion? Blow stuff up of course! So the fun began. Don't worry we didn't light this while we was wearing it, they hung it from a tree. This picture is a sparkler bomb going off at night. Yeah and then we tried one of those "damaged" fireworks. Hmm this is what happened.

Did you hear in the background "that wasn't supposed to do that?" Yeah, that one was supposed to go up in the air and do that. Here is another picture just for the fun of it and to blind your eyes. So that was my fourth of July, I had to leave early because of work. Grrrr. Earlier in the day, me and my friend Amy were drinking tea and eating scones. Amy came and experienced her first sparkler bomb with my family. It was a great night overall. Best way to spend the fourth!!