Last night, the family and I ventured out to Columbus' annual Red White and Boom celebration. Usually we pass on this endeavor due to the popularity of it (read huge crowds, loads of traffic, etc.). However, I really wanted to go to it this year since I hadn't been since I was a kid.
It wasn't all that bad. Whether or not we go again next year is still up in the air, but overall, I'm glad we went. First we ate dinner at The Spaghetti Warehouse, then we headed out to find a place to watch the fireworks.
We ended up being a little bit farther away from them than we would have liked, we didn't see some of the lower ones, but not a terrible spot. And bonus: parking was free! There were plenty of other people there as well. Not so many that we were crowded, but enough that we figured it should be a decent spot to watch from. We unfolded our lawn chairs and spread out a blanket, then the girls and my hubby started playing catch with a baseball.
So as they start passing the ball back and forth, this weird long haired, drunk guy and his family show up and the guy just stands there, like 4 feet from my hubby watching them. Meanwhile, his own family is several feet away playing their own game of badmitten or something. So why is this guy just standing there, holding his beer "disguised" in a plastic Coke cup from the likes of Arby's, watching my family instead of playing with or watching his own family? Weird!
So then the guy sees the girls start getting disinterested in playing and asks to borrow one of their mitts to catch with my hubby. Of course, guru thought it would be rude to say no and let him borrow one of our (my) mitts. I was not really happy about that and the girls were kind of upset that they couldn't play catch anymore and that this guy was using one of the mitts that they use.
When they were done playing, we get the mitt back and of course it is all sweaty! I'm pretty p.o.'d that guru let Mr. W.T. McDrunkandirty use my mitt and get it all yucky! O well, that is terrible that I was thinking bad things about this guy judging him by the way he looked (and the fact that he was drunk!).
Well, I guess I now have a reason to use my Lysol (Disinfects!) Sanitizing Wipes, unlike Lizlee. Hehe!
4 comments:
So, do the girls enjoy themselves? And how long did ya wait in traffic aferwards?
Do ya plan on going back next year?
Not sure yet if we'll go again next year or not. If we do, I wouldn't mind trying to find a closer spot to watch the fireworks.
We didn't really have to wait too long. We followed about 3 cars that went the opposite way of the rest of the cars and it took us to a different exit that apparently no one else knew about. Traffic was a little bit slow on Broad street, but not stopped. So we got to the freeway fairly quickly and then it was a free shot back. Not bad at all.
There actually weren't any bathrooms around where we were, but there was a McDonalds just down the street, we drove there to use the bathroom. But we didn't get there til about 8 so we only had 2 hours before the fireworks started. Maybe our families could go together next year???
The sweaty mitt sounds gross...but the Spaghetti Warehouse sounds great. We need one of those in NY. (We have plenty of WT McDrunkanddirty's.
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