Constitution Day is a big deal around here. There is a softball tournament here in Majuro where all of the outer islands send in their teams to compete. As you can see we haven't figured out our new camera. Our neighbor, Don Hess, invited us to join him on Kenneth Kramer's boat to go an watch the fireworks. Kenneth Kramer lives 3 doors down from us. The fireworks were lit off of a boat in the lagoon. Our boat ventured up close - we estimated that we were about 100 yds. away from the fireworks boat. We did take some video but they transferred over onto the flash drive as still pics. The last two pics show how close we were to the boat firing off the fireworks. It wasn't a very long show this year according to all of the people on our boat.
What I remember about the boat ride out to the lagoon was how many stars were visible in the night skyonce when we got away from the shore and out into the lagoon. There were kids and adults on the boat and none of us had life jackets on. The boat also didn't have any lights on it. Kenneth Kramer had a hand held spotlight that he used to help navigate the ship. Someone else was steering the boat and Kenneth would shine the light out into the water to make sure we didn't hit the reef.
The Chinese (Tawainese) were in charge of the fireworks last year. The year before the US Embassy was in charge. We were told the fireworks the previous year were better than the Chinese.
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