4th of July fireworks on a Saturday in Bethlehem.

4th of July being Wednesday the weather was not kind at all and the rain date was set for Saturday. So in the evening after dinner we set out to get there with time to spare and on the way I had planned to stop by what is called the "cup". The cup is a really old ice cream place that actually started out many many years ago as a shack in the shape of a cup. Of course now its a proper building and as you can imagine, just trying to pick a flavour is an ordeal in itself. I had a nice banana split sundae and the others had a cone. From there it was on to near the south side of Bethlehem, as I suspected many other people had the idea of spending a Saturday evening watching fireworks. We walked down to the bridge and set up our blanket on a grassy embankment under some small trees by the roads verge, right about where we thought the fireworks would be visible from. We were there with much time to spare and waited and waited as people came and congregated and set down to watch the fireworks. The anticipation was building and building until we heard some fireworks off in the distance and we thought "are we in the right place". I was confident that we were in the right place and eventually the display did start. It was quite spectacular and as good as any fireworks display we were lying on our blanket and right above us were the fireworks of every colour. The tree we were under was only very slightly hindering our view of the display but I thought it was very nice to view the extreme colours through the small tree's branches. It was a nice way to spend a saturday evening.