So we are really back in the US, although not really on the right time yet. Jet lag can really kick your butt, especially when it’s a seven hour difference.
Both of us tried our best to sleep in but woke up too darn early. Dick appears to have picked up some kind of a sinus infection and is needing extra sleep right now. It’s nice that we have some time. We have about a week at Patti’s mom’s where we can kind of kick back, have some family time and relax.
In the morning of the third, Patti had some work things to print off for work and was able to do that over at her brother Perry‘s house. Then, Perry, his wife, Jodi, and Patti and Dick hung out for a while and then went out for lunch. Jodie was taking advantage of it being a holiday for 3 July so she felt like she was really sneaking away to be able to go out for lunch on a Friday.
Next, we went and got the oil changed on our car which we knew needed to happen while we were on the trip. So nice to be able to hook up with a local Toyota dealership and get the 30,000 mile check up with our car and oil change so we’re now good to get us back to San Diego.
For dinner, we went out to Canadian Honkers. This is an iconic Rochester restaurant that was started years ago when there were lots of Canadian geese in a park in downtown Rochester. They were attracted to the open water year-round due to the power plant. We all ordered the all you can eat shrimp and walleye. We are not starving on this trip. Eating so much food.
Then a quiet evening and off to bed.
We woke up early on the Fourth of July thinking happy 250th birthday USA. It’s a strange and odd birthday time. There have several years recently that we’ve been in Rochester on the Fourth of July, and the plan is to join Patti‘s brother and sister-in-law down at the local park for a concert and watching fireworks. Crossing our fingers it won’t be raining.
The concert in the park was excellent. Everyone had a wonderful time. We all settled in following the concert to wait for the fireworks to begin. They started at 9:45 and were lovely. And then they stopped at 9:47. Everyone sat and waited. Was there some type of problem with the fireworks, maybe a computer glitch. Most people stayed in place. Finally after around 15 minutes, they turned the flood lights on. Was it REALLY over so soon? No announcements, and people began to leave.. Over the next few minutes, as the crowd was moving, we could hear the thunder, and then the rain started lightly. We wished the people in front of us felt more urgency. We were not too wet by the time we were at the car but the skies soon opened and heavy rain began to fall.
No one could understand what had happened. A two minute fireworks display was not what we expected! Later we found out it was a perfect storm of troubles: It was reported that some of the fireworks crew had heat stroke, which was surprising since it wasn't that hot. There were other technical problems with setting the fireworks off. And then the storm was coming. Since they had already taken down the sound system so no way to give announcements. A rather dud of a way to celebrated the 250th year of the US. But, as many people said, maybe appropriate for the type of year we had had. Happy Independence Day!
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