The Fourth of July was a pretty normal day for me, even though I live in our Nation’s Capital. After you have lived here a few years it starts becoming a bit mundane and you start to get tired of fighting the tourists out on the National Mall. This year my husband and I went over to a friend of ours for a backyard barbecue in the early afternoon. It was nice, and we left around 5 o’clock to make it back into the city, so I could watch the fireworks. Surprisingly, there was hardly any traffic. The one thing that I do like about living here is watching the fireworks on the Fourth. Viewing Angel from Air Force Memorial I originally planned to go into DC proper to watch fireworks from the National Mall or over to Rosslyn to watch them from the Marine Corps Monument, but metro put a crimp in my plans. The DC metro system was only going to run till its normal weekday time of midnight. While they would be running rush hour service...
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