If you ever want to see a spectacular fireworks show on the 4th of July, this is a must see. Lander is 39 miles to the west and north of our mission at Sixth Crossing Sweetwater station. The missionaries are asked to help with the clean up after the show. They requested 2 trucks to help with all the equipment afterwards. We volunteered to take our truck and stay after. The best part about that is we get to drive right up on the hill where he lives. Everyone else has to find somewhere to park and walk up the lane that goes up the hill to his house. We arrived a couple hours before the show to enable us to have our truck in place before all the people started arriving. Sorry the colage of pictures is hard to really see what it was like. We were able to meet Dr. Bills, his wife, sisters and mother. Dr. Bills has been doing this fireworks show on the 4th free for the public for about 30 years. His mother used to have all the neighborhood kids over for fireworks and always served ice cream. So he has continued that tradition and served ice cream cones and watermellon to the public that came for the show. He went thru about 12 - 5 gallon containers of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice cream and about 8 huge watermelons. Margie Hutchins, his sister was a very nice lady that took us behind the scenes. She was incharge of the calvary uniforms that were on loan for the reinactment program they do prior to the fireworks.
The program was so spectacular. 10,000 people come from all over to enjoy this beautiful program. The fireworks and music are choreographed together along with the narration of the begining of our land of promise, the home of the brave and the free!!! It is worth seeing. We would travel up here just to see it again. Doug's parents loved the show. Couldn't stop talking about it. I am glad they were here to go with us.
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