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Sun, 11 Jul 2010
Happy Birthday Alexandria!
Alexandria celebrated its 261st birthday on Saturday night. Robert and I walked down with a picnic dinner and Sarah joined us a bit later. This is a view of the festivities before the fireworks (music on the stage, kids running around, etc) through a rainbow light saber. Robert will tell you that, “rainbow is my most powerful setting.” (There are 7 other options — what would we do without little computer chips…)
Once it was dark enough, the fireworks started with the traditional 1812 Overture — with real howitzers. We were sitting right behind them and had a great view. If you look closely, you’ll see two of the firing squads below this burst (this was after the Overture, so they were not so busy) and a new firework shell taking off from the barge between them.
Just because of Alexandria’s location, the fireworks would pause for a couple minutes now and again to let a plane land at National Airport. The last pause seemed to be the end so we were halfway back to our car before the last round of fireworks went off.
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