explosions in the sky

As many of you know, I'm from Louisville, KY. What you probably don't know is that Louisville, KY is home to the largest annual fireworks display in the nation (wikipedia agrees) called Thunder Over Louisville, which kicks off the Kentucky Derby festival. Several hundred thousand people attend the event - more than four times the number who go to the actual Derby.

I wanted to show a video of it, but none of the videos on YouTube did it justice. It's a really gorgeous event - thirty minutes of fireworks exploding from gigantic river barges and two bridges that cross the Ohio River. It also didn't exactly capture the sentiment of the event - everyone comes early in the day (usually in bad weather), watches the Air Force Thunderbirds and eats fried deliciousness, starts getting anxious for the fireworks to start, then leaves halfway through the fireworks in order to beat everyone else, who had the same idea. Oh, Kentucky.