4th of July....

This year we didn't do much as it was super hot. As that seems to be the case much of the time the past few months. However, we did manage to get out a bit and do a few things.

On the 3rd we met up with our friends Dora and Jason. We went into St Louis and had dinner. After dinner we went over to Dora's work. She works directly down from the river, which is where the shoot off the fireworks nightly. Her work allows for them to go up into their building and onto their balconies and watch the fireworks from there. It is definetly one of the better places to watch them. You are up high, above most of the other buildings downtown and can see them perfectly. Also, being up that high, there is a very nice breeze and therefore is was much cooler, had we been down street level.

This was Jetta's first time watching fireworks, so we were excited to see how she would react. She was pretty excited. However, since it was nearly 9:30, she was fading fast. She did, however make it through them, but was more than ready to head home once they were over. We were very glad we got to watch them with Dora and Jason and that they took us with them to watch them from her building.

We had thought about taking Jetta again on the 4th to the little town down the road. However, it was so hot and again, with it being so late, didn't want to keep her up late another night. She did tell several people we saw over the next couple days how she saw "fireworks". So, I guess she enjoyed them.

I'm gonna attach a couple pictures we took on the front step of her in her 4th of July outfit...looking all festive. I think she looks rather cute if I do say so myself.