Footprints in my life: Happy July 4th!!

Getting to a new place is all about explorations of it to me. I decided to be at DelMar Fairgrounds for this year's July 4th. During the past few years, there always got BBQ party at my cousin's place. July 4th was all about food, fun and fireworks, yeah?

Why fairgrounds while there got a couple of other places in San Diego for fireworks? Well, it was the last day of Fairgrounds. And it's close to where I live, plus I managed to get unlimited admission tickets to it so why not? :P

Needless to say, it was overcrowded. It was our second time there so we skipped the fun rides for the kids this time. Of course, the girls weren't so happy about it. Especially Sophie who was so bold and took lots of thrill rides during last visit. She wanted more.

Raging waves: one of the crazy rides Sophie enjoyed. It was crazily fast while making rounds and rounds. I got dizzy even just watching them

From Michael Jackson's Neverland's swinger. It was crazily high and swinging around but Sophie loved it

Poor unhappy Michelle who didn't meet the minimum height requirements and couldn't take any ride

I'm glad that we took a shuttle bus to there. It not only saves big bucks for parking but also saves time. Just sit back and relax the ride without having to worry anything about the traffic. And girls really enjoyed it since they didn't have to sit in the car seats :P

If you are adventurous and want to check out some fascinating food which you couldn't easily get outside, this is the place to go. Deep fried snickers, chocolate covered bacon, Butter Beer, Deep fried Cereal, Deep Fried Avocado, Deep Fried PB& J, Turkey legs, and so on. Even those food available outside were presented very unusual way. One foot long corn dog, nearly a foot high funnel cakes, etc. Either it would be a combination you've never thought of or a bizarre presentation you wouldn't commonly see outside. I checked a turkey leg out and it was awesome. Girls loved it too. We chowed down but he didn't as he didn't particularly like the smoked flavor of it.

Turkey Leg. Huge, huh?

A lot of people were swaying with the music from the free live concert. We managed to get a seat on the 3rd floor. I loved "Hotel California" out of all songs they did. 9 o' clock was the time for the fireworks display. Girls were so excited. But Michelle got a bit scared later on due to the loud noises triggered by the fireworks. Watching fireworks has never been boring to me. What's more this time was that there got all different shapes displays from the fireworks: happy faces, fishes, stars, even the Saturn. Woah! Amazing!