#001 Fourth of July Special

The Fourth of July Fireworks

The Esplanade on the Charles

Travel Time: 20 min walk to the Mass Ave/Sm

oot Bridge. OR Orange Line MBTA to downtown crossing to change to the Red Line MBTA To MGH.

Cost: Free!

This is one of the most popular attractions in Boston on July 4th. Almost everyone and their grandmother is out on the esplanade. So be prepared for

everything, the drunken college and high school students, little old ladies, and even the special few who think its a great idea to have a bicycle in a mass group of people. If you have personal space or people issues, you may want to move far away from the river, so not to have to confront these issues.

Now the Boston Pop's will begin at 9, the actual fireworks will not begin until about 10 or 10:30pm. So be prepared for a long night, there are some crazies out there that will get to the esplanade around 8am on the 4th, in order to get the best seats of the house, in the DCR Hatch Shell, so they can see the Pops perform, while I'm sure this is cool and all, I dont think it's necessary. We arrived maybe between 8pm and 815pm there was plenty of good seating still available, although the crowds were quickly filing in and by 8:45pm there was barely any standing room available, nor was there any room to walk. If you are trying to meet people it was a pain, mainly because the cell service was super shotty, since everyone was trying to use their phone in the same small radius.

The show did also feature Kenny Chesney, which was because CBS, yes the television studio, took over this production of the fireworks, but we won

't go there.

The fireworks started on time, and they were awesome! They lasted between 45

-60 min, and featured every kind of firework available, colored ones, shaped ones, loud ones, silently but deadly ones. It was awesome, my favorite, and probably always will be, are the white ones that look like weeping willows, its the

only way I know how to describe them. Please see picture!

Now, once the show was over, and its not like a concert, there's no inkling of an encore. There is a mass exodus, and there is no way to escape it. Even if you wait a couple of minutes, so if half the crowd, the only good thing is that the MBTA T is free after the show! So you might as well bite the bullet, join the crowds and wait in line to go to where ever your next July 4th destination is.

If you are ever in Boston on July 4th, this

is a must see/do, even with ALL the other Bostonians and tourists around.

Dont Forget to Check Out Their Website at:

http://www.july4th.org/