[Ghoulish Delight]

Sounds like a ton of fun. Turned out my sister's friend sort of flaked out on their tentative evening plans, so rather than leave her and her husband alone, we stuck around with them. Plus, we got kind of a late start to the day, and killed the afternoon in a movie theater, so by the time we would have had to leave for the beach, it felt like we'd spent no time at all with my sister. Definitely glad we hung around with them. There's no view of an real fireworks show from their house, but we had a supply of "safe and lame" fireworks that we wet off in the backyard, much to my sister's consternation. That, plus the above mentioned mobile display, plus abortive display at Dodger Stadium on Sunday, plus awesome as all get-out display at the Bowl on Saturday and I think CP and I more than fulfilled our patriotic duty to watch things blow up this weekend.