We joined the Paradise Valley
Group for breakfast at Bob Evans then Zac stayed with the group to go to
downtown Nashville. Peter, Zane, Genesis
and I went back to swim and relax at the RV park. Then we headed downtown on a shuttle to go the
the 4th of July fireworks!
These are rated the 2nd best in the USA! $30,000 worth of fireworks all in one
location. We got a great spot right in
front of the river for viewing the fireworks.
But, the downfall was that we were on a fairly steep hill and the grass
was packed with people trying to walk between others to get to whomever they
were sitting with. One lady fell right
on Zane as she was attempting to walk down the hill. Another guy fell on the girl next to Zane,
and the people falling continued throughout our 3 hour wait for the fireworks
show to start.
It was the most amazing
fireworks we have ever seen in our lives!
Absolutely fantastic!
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| 215,000 people packed into a few blocks |
There were over 215,000 people
viewing the fireworks in downtown Nashville, which was a record attendance for
the city. We worked our way through the
crowd like sardines to get to the street.
We were about half way 2nd
Ave, when the crowd started to stampede towards us. You could see the fear on peoples faces as they fled away from whatever had scared them.
Peter was quick to pull us all behind a tree on the other side of the
street, and then we ran to a building front and crouched down, when the blast
of a cherry bomb/gun fire??? went off.
Police on horseback were on
the street getting control of the crowd, as we ducked down a side street to get
out of there. Zane and Genesis were
crying and upset and just wanted to get out of there and go home! This was the beginning of a long night ahead
and it was only 10:30 p.m.
We walked to catch the
shuttle back to our campsite, to find many people waiting and no shuttles to be
found. After waiting awhile, Peter
walked to the end of the street corner and saw our shuttles up a block. The shuttle had been stuck there full of
people for over 2 hours and the traffic was not moving, as police had closed
roads. We considered getting a hotel, as
the kids were still real shook up from the scary stampede earlier, but Zac was
not with us and hotel cost was very expensive, so we opted to wait it out for a
shuttle back to our RV park.
Zac had to take a cab from the Opryland Resort to our RV park. We did not arrive back to the motorhome till 2:00 a.m.! I can only tell you that we have never been more thankful to be back to our motorhome in all of our travels. We are thankful for the Lords protection!
After 27 minutes of the finest fireworks this was the finale
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