July 4 2009

This year for the 4th of July we started our day off up in Cumming at Morgan's parent's house. Terrel helped her dad stain their deck. Morgan and her mom and the girls just hung out and played with the girls. We had fun and had a great lunch of Jim N Nicks BBQ!!! We then made plans to go to Stone Mountain park to see the laser light show and fireworks. It was time to go and Terrel looked online at the website to get the address and up popped a big screen that said PARK IS CLOSED... at 4:00 they closed all the gates to Stone Mountain because the park had reached it's capacity. We were a little bummed, but said there are soo many places around Atlanta doing fireworks, we'll find something else to do....so we decided let's go to the Gwinnett Braves game(since the Atlanta Braves were in Washington). We drove up there, went to eat at Chili's first then headed to the game and got there, and it was SOLD OUT!!! STRIKE 2 for us!!! We decided to go back to the Mall of Georgia area where we saw a bunch of people lining the streets and all to find out what was going on....these people were getting set up to watch the fireworks from the Mall of Georgia and also the Gwinnett Braves...so we decided to just settle there in the parking lot to watch. We got there around 730 or 745 so we had to wait about an hour and a half before they started which was fine. It got to be about 845 and the crowd really started getting there...well up drives a bunch of teenagers who were very rude and turned their music(RAP) up very loud and started dancing doing moves we didn't want our children to see...so we decided to move back in the parking lot.... now the fireworks started but we could barely see them---we were pretty dissappointed--- we jumped in the car and decided to go to the ramp iof the interstate to watch. Everyone else had that same idea....so we couldn't do that...we ended up at a conv. store to watch some of the gwinnett braves fireworks which turned out to be very good :):). Our day didn't go as planned but it ended up being a fun evening and Tegan really enjoyed the fireworks and we were together as a family and that's all that matters :):) We hope you all had a fun and happy 4th too!