The weekend was basically going to be a working one… we’re heading up to the family cabin next weekend so my husband is trying to get ahead at work so he can take off Thursday.  But we got a nice invitation from friends to come over for dinner with their kids who were in town for the 4th.  Jimmy absolutely makes the best ribs in the world… and all the veggies were picked fresh in Tatnall County (the U-Pick Capital of Georgia) or home grown so everything was delicious.

In years past, we’ve joined these same friends for fireworks at the Sea Island Beach Club, a high end way to spend the holiday.  This year, we decided to go lower keyed so we drove up to Village Creek Landing, a spot on the eastern marsh facing Sea Island where you can launch boats.  It has a clear view of the south end of the Island – so we, and lots of other people, sat around, drank, watched kids at play, watched other people try to set the marsh on fire with their own fireworks…and got to see in the distance, the fireworks on Jekyll Island, the St Simons Island Pier and over the trees to our left, the fireworks at Ocean Forest, Sea Island’s exclusive private club within their already private club.. if that makes any sense.  (Just think hoity-toity squared…) Then, the Sea Island Beach Blub started theirs – and while we weren’t right there along the ocean sitting in nice chairs sipping $9 glasses of wine, it was really quite nice.  In fact, I think we enjoyed it more sitting out with the nice marsh breeze, on the back of a truck with a cooler, relaxed and low-keyed.

So I’ve gone from standing on the roof of my friend’s co-op building on 15th St.  watching the Macy’s Fireworks on the East River in New York City in years past…. to sitting on the back of a truck along a marsh… but any which way, I love fireworks no matter how it’s served up.

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