4th of July

On July 4th, Charles and I hiked up Stone Mountain with Bevin and Zellyn to watch fireworks. It was raining when we got there, but lightly, so we continued on, hoping it would let up as the night went on. It let up long for a while and we watched the surrounding area's fireworks, which were definitely outmatched by several tremendous lightning storms. However, after quite a show, we too were in a pretty heavy storm. The mountain put on a short fireworks display at the end of the light show, but cancelled the fireworks show that was supposed to follow it. It was pretty disappointing that the show wasn't longer, but the fireworks that we saw were quite spectacular- the ones set off from the ground broke just at eye level off the side of the mountain silhouetting the people standing on the edge, and the ones set off from the top of the mountain showered right on top of us. The walk down the slippery smooth rock surface of the mountain was hairy, and I would have fallen three times if I wasn't holding on to a surprisingly surefooted Charles.