Fireworks!!

Being this our first summer in New York, we were excited to find out that we would most likely have a great view of the 4th of July fireworks. To make it easier on if we should be here or not, I'm eight months pregnant, so no traveling for me. Which made our decision easy to sit at home in the cool A/C and watch the fireworks from our living room window. We did have some doubts on how well we would be able to see them, but as you will see, it's pretty fantastic! 

Two hours before the show and boats were already gathering on the Hudson. There were four barges with the fireworks on them, one of them you can see the flat part on the right side of the picture.

One more hour to go, more boats, and the FDNY sprayers going.

NYPD helicopters coming in force to make sure all is well. 

Spencer ready in his seat. 

This was about a half an hour before the show started. 

20 minutes and the show starts!!! See all those blue and red lights?? Yeah, those are all the police boats in the river. 

The first fireworks!!!! YES, we can see them!!!!!

This is to get a better view of how we were seeing them. You can see the street below, so really not too shabby.

Hearts! We found out there were 30 different shapes for the fireworks. We tried to catch them all.

 Happy faces!

Beautiful!!

Fireworks are awesome!

Blurry but love the red, white and blue.

Finale.

The fireworks were awesome, even though we put the music from the TV on in the background, to which we quickly figured out the TV was 10 seconds behind our live view. So...next year we'll have to get the music on the radio or something. Overall, we'll be spending July 4th here again next year, it was GREAT!!!!

I was trying to get a video on here of the massive exodus of people and boats at the end of the show, but the video does not want to load. I'll keep trying, BUT it was crazy to see all the people from the park leaving and crowding the streets, and then also all the boats going back down the river. I was happy we could be home already and put Spencer straight to bed, and me too. Overall, a FANTASTIC July 4th. 

side note: in the last blog post I put up a picture of fireworks from I'm guessing last year's show here in NYC, but wanted to let you know that I did not take that picture. I found it online, but loved how it looked with the NYC skyline in the background, so it was taken from Jersey. Just so you know.