Fireworks And Open Parks

Me, my parents and Eddie all went to the county fair yesterday for July 4th. My parents have never gone to a fair before so they did not know what to expect. We parked at Mira Costa College and took the school bus to go to the fair. The buses runs full every five to ten minutes to and fro from the community college to the fairgrounds.

We got to the fair around 6pm and we looked around for a while, sightseeing and trying out odd yet interesting food- the blooming onion was loved by everyone. Eddie tried out the classic shooting game where you shoot all the red stars in the middle. Luckily, he won! He had said that for fifteen years of playing that game, he had not been successful. The game attendants cheered loudly saying, "Winner, winner, we've got a winner!" Eddie had won a huge black bear almost half his size. We walked around for more witnessing before our eyes the rides and the people screaming while in them. We saw in them the thrill, the fun and the excitement.

The fireworks began to display its beauty in the heavens at exactly 9pm. The dark skies were perfectly clear for such an exhibit. The colorful, varying types of fireworks blazed for everyone to see for thirty minutes. It was a spectacular fireworks show, a rather first class fanfare. We went home right after the fireworks were done. We got in the bus immediately for there were less crowds outside. If we would have left later, we would have found ourselves stuck amidst the crowd for a long time, perhaps for an hour or so- just like what me and Eddie had to go through three years ago. I'm thankful we took the bus instead of driving there and parking in the overly crowded parking structure. It would have taken us about an hour as well to get out the parking lot.

We played a game of scrabble when we got home. I won the game by a far margin as usual. I had a scrabble- the word "audible" with a total of 83 points landing on the triple word score.

Today: My parents had spent the night. We changed our plans of going hiking nearby. Instead, we decided to visit some relatives at El Cajon where we spent about three hours. They served us lunch, mostly childhood dishes from my home country. I devoured "dinuguan" since I was longing for its taste. My mom and dad likes the vegetable kind, "pinakbet". After finishing lunch, my mom and her cousin, whom we visited, talked for couple hours while me and my dad sat on the couch watching television show from the Philippines. It was very refreshing seeing some Filipino entertainment shows- dancing, singing- and I got to see famous people from my home country perform.

We headed to Balboa Park after. We roamed the area full of museums, plants of varying kinds, dozen types of cactuses, roses, fountains, artsy people and majestic trees. The architect in those museums (they might have been carved) was wonderful to look at. There were a lot of people there today, and we very much enjoyed our time spent in the area.

My parents left as soon as we got home around 5pm. Eddie was out buying groceries at Henry's for dinner. Eddie had made really good steak with rice and asparagus, and I hungrily ate the meal. We played a game of chess, and sadly, I lost.