Happy Fourth of July!

Hope everyone had a happy and safe Fourth of July. We went to Manhattan, MT and played a couple of games of softball with our friends William and Teresa and the mission team that was working with them this week. After the softball we all ate hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, etc... until we were stuffed. Then Christina and I took advantage of being near Bozeman and went and did a little shopping. Christina had a couple of gift cards from her birthday and I went to the new Sportsmen's Warehouse that just opened... happily (from my wife's perspective, anyways :) ) we were able to get out of there with just a couple of new bumpers (retrieving dummies) for Haddie.

We came home about 4:00 PM and rested for an hour, then we went to a barbeque with some friends in East Helena. When we pulled into their driveway, we noticed that the neighbors had a pair of sawhorses out with a board securely fastened to them. On the board were fastened several (about 10) firework launching tubes of various sizes. Thinking it a little strange, we asked our friends about it and found out that it was perfectly legal to shoot fireworks off in the city of E. Helena...and what a show it was!! I don't know exactly how much money people spent on fireworks there, but it was the most that I have ever seen. It seemed like everyone in E. Helena had spent thousands of dollars on fireworks. We sat there for over an hour watching as fireworks went off all over the town, including the actual city firework show. And when we left, there was no signs of it slowing down. It was truly amazing.

If any of you ever wonder where we'll be for the Fourth of July, East Helena is the place!