We started off our day picking raspberries and strawberries at the same place I recently went strawberry picking. So now I can also check raspberries off my must pick list. Woo! They were a little picked over since we arrived later in the afternoon but if you worked for it (getting up and under the bushes) you could still find a lot of larger and super ripe berries. Mmm…

Walker and I had been invited to a party a few miles north but we weren’t really in the mood to bike. Instead we packed a few bags with snacks and games and walked down to the highway overlook. It sounds like a funny place to watch the fireworks but we basically had front row seats. They weren’t super close but there was no one in front of us and we had a full view of the harbor and the surrounding neighborhoods.

After hours of waiting a lot more people showed up and a little while after 10 the fireworks finally got going. It was a good show and afterwards we headed home through the crowds and quickly found our way to bed. We were exhausted. Overall a pretty good first 4th of July in Seattle.

^this one is kind of crazy because you can see the smoke from a fire that started a little while before the fireworks started. yikes!