4th of July 2005
A whole bunch of friends came over at different points throughout the long holiday weekend, some for a couple hours, some for one or two nights, and then on the 4th we went into Cumberland to watch the 4th of July Spectacular! from the shores of Beaver Dam Lake
July 1-4, 2005

01-BuckLake Buck Lake on July 1st 02-Deer Somewhere along the lakeshore there are a couple of deer, good luck spotting them 03-Steps The steps leading up from our basement patio to the main sidewalk 04-Deer The deer's standing broadside, can you spot him? 05-Hostas Hostas 06-Paddleboat Zach & Jolene out on one of the paddleboats on July 2nd 07-JoleneZach-Paddleboat Jolene & Zach, with our house in the background 08-BeaverLodge Beaver lodge 09-BeaverLodge Beaver lodge 10-Lillypad Lillypad 11-Pond A small pond connected to Buck Lake 12-Pond Pond 13-Lake Buck Lake, from a different viewpoint than I usually see it 14-Paddleboat Out for a joyride around the lake 15-Point The point 16-ZachJolene-Paddleboat Zach & Jolene out for a spin 17-ZachJolene Zach & Jolene 18-JoleneCarl-Paddleboat We made a switch, and Carl took Zach's spot ... hmm, it's kinda tilting :-) 19-Point Point 20-SwimmingRaft The swimming raft 21-Lunchtime Lunchtime! Mmm, spaghetti ... around the table, we've got Zach, Jolene's legs, Seth & Carl 22-JoleneCarl-Lunch Jolene & Carl havin fun 23-BuckLakeSunset Buck Lake sunset 24-Group-DockFireworks Everyone out on the dock shooting off some bottle rockets 25-Carl-BottleRocket Carl setting up a bottle rocket 26-BottleRocket Burning fuse 27-Carl-BottleRocket Now *this* is a bottle rocket 28-JoshBen-BottleRocket Josh & Ben lighting a bottle rocket 29-Seth-BottleRocket Seth getting another one ready 30-Josh-Nipples Josh loves his nipples 31-Sunset Sunset over Buck Lake 32-Ben Ben 33-ShaunMike-BlurryCanoe Shaun & Mike went out for a canoe ride 34-LakeaAtNight Buck Lake at night 35-Firework Setting off a firework on the lawn on the evening of July 3rd 36-ShaunBenMike Shaun, Ben & Mike 37-MikeJohnKate Mike, John & Kate 38-ShaunMike Shaun & Mike 39-JanelleSarah Janelle & Sarah stopped by too! 40-JanelleJaredSarah Me with the lovely ladies 41-JohnKate John sleeping (what else is new?) and Kate, uncomfortable as always that she's being captured on camera ... watchin a movie on the afternoon of July 4th 42-BeaverDam Down at Beaver Dam Lake an hour or two before the fireworks were set to start 43-BeaverDamLake Beaver Dam Lake 44-KateJohnBen Kate, John & Ben, eating some Subway down at the beach 45-SettingSun The setting sun 46-4thSunset July 4th sunset 47-4thOfJulySunset 4th of July sunset 48-FireworksSetup Setting up for the fireworks 49-BeaverDamDusk Dusk at Beaver Dam Lake, with a growing crowd of boats to watch the upcoming display 50-Sparkler Random kid with a sparkler ... now that's some Americana right there! 51-Sparkler Kid with a sparkler 52-PreShow A couple of residents on the other side of the lake decided to put on a pretty nice pre-show 53-PreShow Pre-show 54-Preshow Pre-show 55-RedFan Red fan fireworks during the pre-show 56-Preshow Pre-show 57-Preshow These fireworks before the real show made for well over 45 minutes of fireworks on the evening, not too shabby! 58-Boats With all the boats and their lights out there it looks like a small city 59-FireworksShow The real fireworks show begins 60-Fireworks Fireworks 61-Fireworks Fireworks 62-Fireworks Fireworks 63-Fireworks-good Fireworks 64-Fireworks-good Colourful fireworks 65-Fireworks-good Fireworks on the 4th of July 66-FanFireworks Fan fireworks 67-FanFireworks-good These were some new fireworks for the Cumberland show, I hadn't ever seen them before 68-FanFireworks Cool fireworks off to our right 69-FanFireworks Fireworks 70-FanFireworks Fireworks 71-FanFireworks-good Red, white and blue

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