We went to Powell Gardens to celebrate the 4th this year, and truly enjoyed ourselves once more. It has become our favorite walking site, with trails winding through flowerbeds and woods, past waterfalls and the lake. They had a "Booms and Blooms" weekend, with their daylilies all in bloom, a daylily sale, and a concert with fireworks on the 5th. We came home with a sack of daylilies in the morning, after walking the trails, and then returned in the evening with a sack picnic dinner from Subway, and our lawnchairs, along with about a million other celebrators. There was a blues/jazz singer concert first, then the Lee's Summit Symphony orchestra played, on into fireworks time. The weather was perfect, a beautiful summer evening, balmy breezes, temperature in the 70's, no mosquitoes to carry us off, and spectacular fireworks display over the lake.
Finding the car afterwards was interesting--I thought we had parked in the furthest field from the entrance to the gardens, and it was dark in the parking lots, except for our flashlight, car headlights, and some spots up on stands. So we walked way down to the furthest end, hitting our remote buttons, no response from any car around. Then we walked way back up to the entrance, and found a traffic director, who asked us when we had arrived. Thankfully he directed us to the right lot, and this time when we hit the alarm button, it went off! What was really funny was that you could hear the same thing happening all over the lot, others doing what we were doing. And as we reached the final turn out of the lot, another senior couple was also wandering back toward the entrance. He was saying to her, "well, if we just wait until they all leave, we should find our car!" I think we considered that a few times too. Senior moments on the Fourth(Fifth)!
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