July 4th Recap (picture overlaod)

Let me start out this post by saying how 

wonderful the city of Boston is!

I knew when we moved here I would fall in love with

the city but yesterday was above and beyond!

My hubby was on the joint services color guard for the 

annual Boston Pops 4th of July event

which meant he was downtown both 

Sunday and Monday nights.

I went with him last night and am SO glad I did.

We began our night at the USS Constitution where 

all the branches practiced the color guard

performance.

Watching these men and women made me quite teary eyed.

There were lots of spectators around taking pictures of them

practicing and I felt very proud of them all 

mostly my husband.

Here are some of the pictures from there...

(I warned you picture overload)

From there we had a police escort to the Esplanade

along the Charles river.

Can I tell you that if you have never had a police escort you are missing out!

The power of a finger pointing at you and police screaming at you to

MOVE gets things moved!

I have never in my life seen traffic part like that before.

It was awesome!

Once we got to the Esplanade the hubby had to leave us

to get prepared.

Our seats while waiting for the LIVE National broadcast were not too

shabby considering all the people there...

 Michael Chiklis

 Martina McBride

My wonderful hubby and the other wonderful 

men and women of the joint services

color guard.

After the color guard my hubby ran into and got a 

picture and autograph of the lovely

Martina McBride

Once it was almost time to go LIVE nationally

we were moved to the "mosh pit" as they called it.

I do not think we could have been any closer 

other than being on stage...

 Do you see that Marine that is MY hubby on TV!

Of course the 4th of July is nowhere near complete 

without fireworks and Boston

knows how to put on a show!

If you were watching and saw them shoot a Marine and his wife watching the 

fireworks that was US!

I hope everyone had as great a 4th of July as we did!

If you didn't notice we were sans kids last night.

Many Many thanks to my wonderful friend 

Amanda for watching them for us while hosting

her BBQ. You are amazing!

Next year we are taking the kids with us!

It was nice to have some "grown up" time though.