After too much searching I finally ended up with an actual plan to go see the traditional July 4th Fireworks on the charles rivier. I went to a BBQ with Jed and Post at Eastgate apartments, which is an MIT dorm like place. Jed is firends with some people who live there, most of whom I’d randomly met before. Jed and I watched the fireworks from the top floor, 28th, of the tower, but others from the BBQ opted to watch from the river side in the rain. Aparently it was raining both water, and fireworks rocket shells, so I was glad to be inside. The show was pretty sweet and included fireworks shaped like cubes, and some really awesome bright white lines that were suspended from parachutes.
There was maybe an hour or so between the end of the 1812 overture, which ends with a small fireworks display on the river, and the start of the live nationally broadcast fireworks. Durring that time I was surprised to see multiple different fire works shows taking place in the city itself. It looked like they launched some from Copley sqaure. It took a while for me to deterime that they were actual fireworks and not some projected on some kind of tempoary outdoor screen. But there were other fireworks as well from farther away, possibly the south end, or who knows where. They were just rising over the buildings between the John Hancock and Prudential towers, so wherever that might be.
I did a lot of walking, at least 5 miles worth by my estimates during the day. I was egar to get out of the house and so ended up at the BBQ like 2 hours early. So I killed the time walking around taking in the sites. I also walked home from the fireworks because I didn’t get to Kendal station ahead of the pack and didn’t particularly want to wait in that long a line. Although, it was probally still faster to take the T; I did have firends to walk with and no one to stand in line with, so I walked.