Flying across the country on the 2nd, chillin' at my sister's house in Battle Ground, Washington for a week! The majority of that time will be spent playing with her 3 boys - 8.5, 6.5 and 1.5! (And the youngest has changed a lot since they visited me for Mardi Gras in January!)
She lives at the end of a cul-du-sac and the two houses on each side of her all have a big potluck/party, with lots of crossover between the houses on the actual Fourth. And when it starts to get dark, all the cars are removed from the circle part of the street and then in the middle of the street everyone fires off the pyrotechnics they bought.
Where they live, 'everything' is legal, so some of the guests/hosts drop a bit of money at the local stands, and the combined show is quite long, even if it's not exactly timed to music. It's nice how they have it set up, safety wise, 'cause all the kids stay on the sidewalk/front yards unless they are helping do a special thing with an adult, and with really just the three houses pointing to that part of the street, there's not too many adults to keep track of so you aren't lighting something off that's going to fly toward someone else in the middle of something.
They pick up the big stuff that night, but the next morning, the hosts are all out sweeping up the street (though overnight guests have been known to help, though last year I had kid duty
).