Fourth of July

the plan for this fourth of July was to head into downtown St. Louis and watch the fireworks from under the arch at a friend's apartment building's roof. We drove downtown and we were 5 blocks away from our friend's apartment building when cars just started pulling over onto the shoulder of the Highway. Then, the cars started just parking everywhere. Even right in the middle of the road! Jeff and I could not get passed them so we just sat in our car on the highway and watched the fireworks. They were beautiful by the way. Then we thought we would still go and visit our friends, so we s-l-o-w-l-y exit the freeway and onto the streets. As we were exiting Fred BARFED! And I was holding him. YUCK! luckily most of it landed on the blanket that we were snuggled in. Then, it seemed like we were waiting in traffic FOREVER! The cardinals game just got out so there was game traffic and fireworks traffic. Jeff and I tried to make the best of it by playing 20 questions and an eventful game of TRUTH or DARE. When we still haven't moved an inch in about 20 minutes, we get out of our car and figure out the police are blocking the road in front of us. One of the other ladies that was stuck in traffic with us redirected all the cars to go through a parking lot and onto the highway back home. So we headed home. Happy fourth of July.....we spent about 3 and 1/2 hours in our car!