14th of July

Most Americans don't usually say Independence Day, we mostly just go with 4th of July.  Something similar is going on in France, according to Wikipedia, Bastille Day is the name given in English speaking countries to the French National Day, what the French usually refer to as Quatorze Juillet.

We had a very nice Bastille Day dinner and celebration last night.  We were not required to provide anything at all and its a good thing because anything we would have brought would not have been up to the standards of what was provided.

One thing we did do though was show up with a fire work.  The basement clean up turned up three "Chinese lanterns" purchased several years ago which had been forgotten about.  These lanterns are my personal favorite and we brought one along.  It spun around really well and provided most excellent shooting sparks but failed to "drop" at the end of the cycle.

I have shot off a bunch of these things over the years and I had experienced this failure one other time.

We had two more and today was the actual 14th of July so we tried again.

There is a string in the middle of the firework which when the whole thing goes off properly is burned through by the fire and sparks thing, at the end it is supposed to drop.

Today it dropped, I was, like totally prepared this time, I took a video.

Two posts in one day.