Time to go on a rant

I feel like I need to start going on rants. I guess the forth of July fireworks brought me over the edge. While Dan and Elissa went early afternoon to save a great spot for us on the edge of the river (great spot by the way) there were some others who waited until 10 minutes before the fireworks started to get equally great spots, OUR SPOTS!!!

These kids, 20 of them to be exact, I will call them hoodlums. They didn't even ask us if they could sit there. We had set up tarps (pretty good size ones) almost right up against the tall brush along the river. These hoodlums come along and sit in the area between us and the brush, probably 2 feet deep. They force us to back up and they even sit on the tarp too.

It wouldn't be that bad if they were good kids, but no, they were hoodlums!! They set off 3 or 4 fire crackers, they broke down a small tree so that they could see better, and one of them brought a dog in and smoked, the dog didn't smoke, (that would've been pretty funny though).

On another note, the announcer on the radio (before the fireworks) said what he liked about the 4th in Cedar Rapids was how quickly people can get home. He said that within 15-30 minutes everyone would be out. I didn't even get out of the parking lot until 45 minutes after. Then it took another 15 minutes to get onto I-380. GOOD JOB GETTING MY HOPES UP. I think I will now make the rant a weekly post.