Wednesday, July 04, 2007

The 4th - Dealiest Catch Style

Okay - so July 3rd was lovely, and July 4th started out just fine!
We dropped anchor and Dad put on his "shorty" wetsuit to do a little barnicle scraping around our boat - The Kanaloa.
Mom and I hung out and snapped some sail boats with the new camera!
We were enjoying the view - this is Children's Island, a small island just out side Salem Harbor used by the local Y as a day camp.
Then as the afternoon wore on the rain started falling and didn't stop!! The harbormaster told everyone over the radio that the fireworks were cancelled. As you can see Dad is wearing his Grundens, a staple for all lobstermen and crab boat crews. The sky poored heavy rain on us and we felt like we were on an episode of our favorite TV show - "Deadliest Catch"!!


Well, we raced to the car and got to hear the Boston Pops 4th Celebration on the radio. (Click on the link and you can see the festivities) Mom sang the whole way home and we got back just in time to see the fire works on TV. Boston skies may have cleared but the North Shore just above Boston was very wet. It may have been rainy - but we were all together and had a very happy 4th of July.


I'm thinking since it's the USA's birthday and they had fireworks, maybe I could get Mom and Dad to have fireworks for my birthday - makes sense right!!

11 comments:

The Brat Pack said...

You are SO lucky you have a boat. Tucker's jealous everytime he comes to your blog.

Sorry it rained on your day. :( We watch the Deadliest Catch all the time though!

Happy 4th!
The Brat Pack

Ruby Bleu said...

Dory...you are my hero...you are so brave to like fireworks. They really scare me.

Lots of Licks, Ruby

Joe Stains said...

fireworks scare me a whole lot I would not like them for my birthday!!!

Molly the Airedale said...

I'm sorry the rain ruined your fireworks Dory! We had rain here and the darn things still went off!They're not my thing AT ALL!

Love ya lots,
Maggie

Peanut said...

If you like fireworks I say go for it.

Lizzy said...

I wish I had a boat. Then I could go out into the water without swimming!

Sparky

Lorenza said...

Hi, Dory.
So sorry about the rain! Always appears when we don't want it!
Seems like you would be the happiest girl in the world if you have fireworks for your birthday!
I hope you get them!
Have a nice day
Lorenza

Johann The Dog said...

That's too bad you didn't get to see fireworks! Rats! But that boat sure looks like fun. The biggest boat I've ever been in is a canoe, BOL!!!

Glad to meet ya!

--Johann

wally said...

Wow--so brave! You could maybe get an episode of "I Shouldn't Be Alive" out of that.

I could do without fireworks on my burpday but if that's what you want, you should definitely get 'em. And a big cake. Who doesn't want a big cake?

wally.

Nessa Happens said...

That's a WHOLE LOTTA RAIN! We had fireworks here but luckily we slept through them and they didn't scare us.

Lady Kaos said...

We love watching Deadliest Catch, too! We dont' have cable so Grandma records it for us and we all watch it!
Definately Your Sis
Kaos