It has been too long since I went to a fireworks
display. I think it was a good thing to
take over ten years away from them. It
made the experience so much better. Wednesday
night I went to Goderich and got to see them light up Lake Huron plus the
company I was with made it worth every moment.
The real show was the first of July.
Wingham was the place to be. I
heard they spent almost thirty thousand dollars on this years show and I think
that’s a pretty good estimate. It was at
Riverside Park right in the ball diamond and we had front row seats. The organisers really took their sweet time
getting it started but it was so worth the wait. We were as close as we could get, right at
the caution tape. When it first started
I was in awe at the pure size of the explosions being up that close...and it
only intensified. My neck started
cramping a bit so I took my sleeping bag and laid down. We were so close some of the fireworks expanded
passed my field of view. Yah, that`s how
close we were. It got to the point that
we thought some of the rouge fire balls were going to come down upon us. I saw the most amazing, bright, white
explosions that I nicknamed The Umbrellas cause the lights didn`t burn out as
quickly as others and when they fell from the sky they were so spread out that
it covered us with light. It reminded me
of a scene from Avatar or The Little Mermaid.
I felt like a kid again. The intensity
gained momentum and at one point I found myself laughing to tears at the wonder
of colors and thunderous cracks in sky and booming tremors through the ground. I wonder what it would be like to imagine the
effect your looking for and designing some of these remarkable fire
canons. All in all, money well spent
Wingham! Thank you for the memories!
