4th July Fireworks

Last night we headed over to Peoria to see a fireworks display to celebrate the 4th of July. It was held at the baseball training ground so up we went onto the bleachers to watch it light up the sky. They had quite a few other attractions there too, including snow! Real snow. Yes, that's aright, in Arizona. In 105F, we had snow. It was produced from a machine, but it was still snow all the same! So that was quite odd, but whatever.

The display lasted for about half an hour, and although the display was impressive, the music didn't quite live up to the same hype. I thought I was going to have to listen to the same America jingle for the entire show, they seemed to just have it suck on repeat. Then once it was all sorted out, the music suddenly blasted out louder, as my dad pointed out - there would have been louder music coming out from a Honda Civic. If you don't know what that is, well, it's not great lets put it that way - the PA system was so quiet!

But anyway, we enjoyed the fireworks all the same, and then it was off back to the car park to wait another forty-five minutes before we could even exit it. Oh the joys of road blocks.

Next post to come includes photos from today's salt water tubing!

Golfland SunSplash Photographs

We got our film developed from the water-proof camera. It was the first time we've ever used it, and I'm pretty happy with how the photos turned out! Scanned a few of them in to post on the blog to show you.

These are from the water-park we went to the other day, as mentioned in one of my previous blog posts; from a place in Mesa called Goldland SunSplash:

4th of July fireworks to come next, and the photos we took today (again using the water-proof camera) on the Saltwater River in Mesa where we went tubing!

July 4th

Happy 4th July! Today we had our family friends Lorrie and Dona over for brunch, which included a bit of an English twist (have you spotted the bunting?) Meat pies, and a traditional English cooked breakfast. Followed by cake..of course. Cookies, and dipped strawberries (red, white, and blue might I add!) and some patriotic cupcakes too.

We got some rare Arizona rain today, which has made temperatures cooler, but now the humidity is higher. You just can't win. Tonight we're hoping to head out to see a fireworks display, so no doubt more photos to come! 

Going tubing tomorrow on the salt river rapids in Mesa, and in true British style we even have an inflatable cooler to take with us, for drinks and snacks. Can't go hungry can we now? Taking the underwater camera and still have a roll of film left, so will no doubt use that up tomorrow too. Hopefully getting the first roll of  film developed soon to show you!

Day Thirteen

Today we had a shopping morning, literally trying on everything in store (I'm looking at you A.Mandy) - followed by a relaxing afternoon in the pool...getting sunburnt. On the back of my legs. So now I look like a walking drumstick, fabulous.


To those who don't know what a drumstick is (I'm talking sweets here)

There's been a dust storm tonight and more lighting, so it looks really foggy outside and eerie. Hopefully it will all be gone by the morning.
Not too sure what we're doing for the rest of the week, no doubt we'll be busy though! 


Here are some photographs of the firework display we went to last night for 4th July at Goodyear Ballpark.


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