We went out to the Acrees' for an early dinner - ribs and veggie crudites for appetizers; burgers, corn and watermelon for dinner; brownies for dessert. All was delicious, as usual. Matthew and Meredith were there, and little dude Canaan sat at the dinner table and had his own little meal. The babes got to play in the deck pool after dinner for a while before we had to head back home. We didn't see any official fireworks, but Stuart and I participated in our own tradition that we started one week after we were married (our first 4th celebration together in Little Rock occurred the very evening that we arrived from driving all of my possessions from NC) - standing on the street and waving sparklers at passing cars. In Little Rock, we lived on a busy street in the middle of town and had lots of folks wave and honk at us the first two years we did it. Then, we moved to a neighborhood in Durham with very little traffic. This year, we happened to have a kid whiz past us on his skateboard during our sparkler tradition, and he waved. So, that's sufficient to comply with tradition expectations I suppose :)
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