Had the opportunity to go out to the Esplanade and watch the fireworks on the 4th.  Fabulous show.  They seem to outdo themselves every year.  I admittedly wasn’t very psyched to go out in the wind and rain, but the show was totally worth it.   The smiley faces, cubes, and hearts that graced years past were there, as well as a couple new features, my favorite of which were the yellow-white “squids” that slowly rose up from the barge.  I remember being an adolescent and wanting badly to be a pyrotechnical engineer.  Each 4th brings a bit of that back.