We had a really fun 3rd and 4th of July. The Costello's came up to visit Sean and we kind of invited ourselves along! We count them as our first visitors, even though they didn't come to visit us. We loved having them here. On Friday morning we rounded up all of the bikes we had and road out near Pullman, WA to the Grizzly Bear reserve.
It is about a 7 mile bike ride out there. 
The weather out here is amazing! We went riding at 11:00 in the morning and I wasn't even really sweating! Definitely not in Houston any more!
The bears weren't really out that day, but I go back often and I snapped a few shots of them playing.
They are pretty amazing animals, and I am more certain now that I never want to be involved in a bear attack!
Here we are getting ready to go! We invited everyone over for tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches when we got home. Nothing like a hot bowl of soup to cool you down after a nice long bike ride! (It's all we had!)
On Saturday morning the Costello's took us all out to breakfast at Adam's favorite morning restaurant. "The Breakfast Club". It was delicious. I had potato pancakes. After breakfast we went to the Farmer's Market and got some stuff for our afternoon BBQ. We even got a strawberry rhubarb pie. It was delicious! The park was really nice and there weren't many people there, which was perfect!
The Costello's brought their dog, Phineas, and the boys were having a lot of fun playing with him. They are watching him fetch something that they threw in the stream!
I couldn't resist taking some scenic shots. The sun was just setting, and it was beautiful!
They have giant dandelions here. They were too tempting not to photograph!
That night Adam and I wanted to go into Pullman to watch the fireworks. We invited our neighbors, Jon and Stephanie, to come with us.
It was an awesome show. What made it even better was the fact that we were right under the fireworks. We just laid down and enjoyed the show. We were right by a playground and this kid climbed to the top of the slide and was watching from up there. It looked so cool when the fireworks would go off behind him.
We were playing with the shutter speed on the camera and got some cool shots.
Happy Independence Day!
After the fireworks, we came back home and set off a few of our own. Adam couldn't resist making a Piccolo Pete bomb...or two!
We had a lot of fun messing with the shutter speed. Here I am trying to write "Adam". You can almost read it, if you look closely.
Some more of our little fire crackers exploding.
We pulled in all the forces for our last tribute to America! God Bless the USA!
5 comments:
Your fireworks shots turned out so cool! It was only 2 years ago that I shot Adam with the Roman candle, right?
I think so...not last summer, but the one before that.
Wow, nice pictures! What kind of camera do you have? I like the blue jean quilt. They're awesome!
I have a canon rebel xTi. I love it and would recommend it to anyone!
You are a great photographer dear Susannah! I've never seen such beautiful dandelions! Also, you guys' firework makes me really shocked coz you could almost take shots right after the trace of fire!
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