Ever since we moved here we have heard people rave about the Silverton fireworks show as the best they have ever seen. But with a late night show followed by a winding road, 2 mountain passes, no guard rails and a road packed with travelers pushing the travel time home to 2.5 hours, there was no way we were going to try it without a place to stay up there for the night. There were fires around Pagosa Springs and Wolf Creek Pass was closed, our normal route, so we detoured around via the Million Dollar Highway through Silverton and Ouray to access the Lost Wonder hut, dropping a few tents and chairs on our way through at a BLM campground outside of Silverton hoping for the best.
When we returned to Silverton, everything was there! Parking was a mess and it looked like a mix of a NASCAR race and a refugee camp but all of the people were respectful, quiet and nice. Everyone was on top of each other and yet it seemed just fine. The McAlvany's met us up there with their kids and it turned out to be one of the funnest 4th of July weekends I've ever had.
Fire restrictions left us roasting over the Coleman.
Patrick, Dashel, Declan and Aeneas.
We all travel with the jumbo packs of baby wipes just in case we end up with something like this!
Good job Tess!
This was the first trip where the boys got to "sleep" in a kid tent. They horsed around until about 12:30 am and all woke up giving each other the McAlvany and McBrayer torture respectively. All in good fun of course.
Blair street, Silverton, Colorado
Hanging out on the drawtight waiting for the parade!
Movie star Tess.
I'm glad someone brought books!
The boys' favorite float.
Justin's favorite float.
It was fun watching the jeep to the left almost pull the bumper off the one in the middle during their stunt.
The fire department water fight.
Back to the campground and all of the boys put on their own parade with their own made up song and throwing beads.
Then we spent the hours of the afternoon making mud soup.
They worked really hard on this.
The big boys skipped rocks. This never gets old.
Justin teaches Mathias (Dave and M-C's bro in law) how to play Oh Heck.
After M-C had her fill, we all got to partake in some traditional 4th of July BBQ! It was really good coming from a girl from the South, where the BBQ flows like water.
The fireworks are indescribable. We were so close that they exploded over our heads. And they were so bright we had to close our eyes at times. They were so loud, each boom was heard 4 to 5 times as it echoed back and forth off the mountains surrounding Silverton. We parked on the highway and managed to skirt the traffic backed up that was headed to Durango and were at our camp in 15 min. What a fun celebration!
Happy Birthday USA!
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