Fourth O’ July

So it was pretty much an awesome fourth of July, Family! Although I did not get to experience another pancake breafast or parade a-la Provo it proved comprable an maybe a little bti better.

My roommate Sarah is a genius and had signed up of these emails from River to River (it’s a concert series down in the financial district). So a month ago she told me to sign up for the Belle & SEbastian fourth of July show. And what do you know? I got two free tickets!

The concert started at 3:30ish and the gates opened at 2 so we invited this guy John who we met on Sunday at church and hen Jessica ended up coming as well. Seth had won tickets too, so he and Jason came and then this whole other pack of mormons were there as well. So we had this big ol’ Mormon possee together on the lawn. It rained and stormed a little in between the opener, Martha Wainwright, and Belle and Sebastian. But we made due with the infamous t-shirt quilt (which by the way, mom, has come in quite handy AND I always get all sorts of complements on it!).

I’m going to include the video link because I made a super sweet video of out day at the concert. For those of you without 21st century connections(Kathy get out of the dark ages of dial up! That was so 10 years ago!) I will post some of the pictures. Kath you can always watch them at the Keysers next time you guys all get together.

For the fireworks..well that was interesting. We were trying to meet up with some people but as the fireworks started, far too promptly at 9:00pm, we beganto panic and by the time we got somewhere and decided to stop looking for people and watch the works…it was over. We were kinda ticked because some police officers informed us that they usually ran about 45 minutes and it had been like 15 minutes…

Yancy,Me, Jared, and Hillary after the fireworks

So we pouted on the lawn at battery park for a good ten minutes when all of a sudden more fireworks started going off!!! So we went down closer and watched the second set. It was pretty awesome. We think they were being shot off a barge out by liberty island. We had a couple making out behind us and some kids next to us who kept making the best comments, they were SO excite about fireworks! So in the end it was a grrrreat night! Summer in the city is going quite well!

I miss you all and love you tons!

Meg