Growing up, fireworks were always prohibited inside city limits (due to drought-fire hazard?) so it's a wonder to me to see fireworks being sold all over town (as opposed to right outside city limits) – and doing very brisk business. And a further wonder is how much money I've heard exploding all over town since at least Wednesday, maybe even Tuesday. If the people of Lees Summit were rated patriotic by how much money they spent on fireworks, they'd be pretty danged patriotic.Just after sunset yesterday evening, we put all the girls in the car and drove over to Legacy Park where the city puts on its annual fireworks display. For the hour prior to complete darkness (and the big show), we were surprisingly plenty entertained with the adjoining neighborhood's fireworks. All sorts of expensive looking and sounding numbers that we might almost have been watching the city's fireworks display a little too closely. But of course there's no mistaking the kind of fireworks a city will spend its money on, and the kind of pretty patterns it makes in the sky. All in all, very satisfying. (It was simulcast with one of the local radio stations so there was even patriotic music to accompany our show.) The aforementioned wonder continued on our way home when it seems the entire town decided to light their fireworks off at once, brightening the sky for miles – and continued lighting them off until after midnight. Even Drew remarked at how he'd never seen the like, having grown up in Florida where fireworks were also allowed within city limits.
