if there's one thing that i love about my knee, it's this:
9:00 pm: googled fireworks, and found out that of the very few cities in the bay area displaying fireworks, one was in our own backyard in cupertino .
9:05: looked up where we could watch the fireworks from since i was afraid all the trees and houses in our neighborhood would block our view.
9:10: jenie and i leave the house hoping we could find somewhere to go for the 9:30 showing, even though we knew it'd be packed, traffic-y, and crowded.
9:13: approached the stevens creek and wolfe/miller intersection, saw that all the parking lots for vallco and all plazas along stevens creek were jammed pack, and hundreds upon hundreds of people walking around. noticed everyone was walking down miller, so we decided to turn right onto miller.
9:15: miller was packed with cars, police cars, policemen, pedestrians, all the side streets were blocked... looked like prime viewing for the fireworks, especially the park on miller.
9:17: the park was blocked off (i read online that it was a location where there would be disabled parking), so we decided to drive past it. turned into a church parking lot instead to see what we could find.
9:18: church parking lot was obviously full and packed, but lo and behold, one handicap parking spot available! we took it.
9:20: walked to the field right next to the parking lot, which happened to be the middle school (which was adjacent to the church)'s field. walked amongst all the people spread out on the grass, picked a spot, and settled in. thankfully the city provided huge spotlights so that we could see where we were walking.
9:30: had the most awesome view for the fireworks show. probably the best view i've ever had. show was a lot better than i expected - i thought that since cupertino was not that big of a city, the show would be small - but i was wrong. highly entertaining, and was quite long. the finale was so big and long that this huge black smoke cloud ended up blocking part of the ending.
not bad for leaving the house at 9:10, eh? ;) tons of traffic driving back - pedestrians, cars, policemen as pedestrians, policemen on motorcycles, policemen in cars, even helicopters with huge search lights everywhere. but since we lived so close, it actually wasn't too bad to get back home. all made possible thanks to my handicap placard. a light in my tunnel of a world. :)
so how did fireworks equate to independence day anyway?
9:00 pm: googled fireworks, and found out that of the very few cities in the bay area displaying fireworks, one was in our own backyard in cupertino .
9:05: looked up where we could watch the fireworks from since i was afraid all the trees and houses in our neighborhood would block our view.
9:10: jenie and i leave the house hoping we could find somewhere to go for the 9:30 showing, even though we knew it'd be packed, traffic-y, and crowded.
9:13: approached the stevens creek and wolfe/miller intersection, saw that all the parking lots for vallco and all plazas along stevens creek were jammed pack, and hundreds upon hundreds of people walking around. noticed everyone was walking down miller, so we decided to turn right onto miller.
9:15: miller was packed with cars, police cars, policemen, pedestrians, all the side streets were blocked... looked like prime viewing for the fireworks, especially the park on miller.
9:17: the park was blocked off (i read online that it was a location where there would be disabled parking), so we decided to drive past it. turned into a church parking lot instead to see what we could find.
9:18: church parking lot was obviously full and packed, but lo and behold, one handicap parking spot available! we took it.
9:20: walked to the field right next to the parking lot, which happened to be the middle school (which was adjacent to the church)'s field. walked amongst all the people spread out on the grass, picked a spot, and settled in. thankfully the city provided huge spotlights so that we could see where we were walking.
9:30: had the most awesome view for the fireworks show. probably the best view i've ever had. show was a lot better than i expected - i thought that since cupertino was not that big of a city, the show would be small - but i was wrong. highly entertaining, and was quite long. the finale was so big and long that this huge black smoke cloud ended up blocking part of the ending.
not bad for leaving the house at 9:10, eh? ;) tons of traffic driving back - pedestrians, cars, policemen as pedestrians, policemen on motorcycles, policemen in cars, even helicopters with huge search lights everywhere. but since we lived so close, it actually wasn't too bad to get back home. all made possible thanks to my handicap placard. a light in my tunnel of a world. :)
so how did fireworks equate to independence day anyway?
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