fireworks - does any one here enjoy them!??

I love fireworks, and I don't really mind the noise from them. My husband also loves them.
We don't go to where the big crowds are and don't enjoy fighting traffic, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy them when viewed from different locations.

I enjoy our town's official display at the park, though we don't go anywhere close. We have a friend whose apartment is on a hill overlooking the park, so we hang out with her and get an excellent view without the traffic headaches.

And Disney fireworks....ahhhh!!

I enjoy them.

I love professionally done fireworks. We were at the fair about 10-15 years ago and didn't realize they were going to do fireworks on Friday nights instead of the 4th of July (due to a shooting a few years before). Anyway, we were literally right next to where they were shooting them off and it was AWESOME! The beauty, the big boom, everything.

BUT, I hate fireworks set off by people who are doing it illegally! Last night we would hear a boom about every 5-10 minutes until 1:00 AM.

Loved sparklers as a kid.

I love all fireworks
Love sparklers, fountains (my favorite), the noise, the professional ones...all of it.

I love that all the small towns around us will be having theor professional shows each weekend until about September

You just described my childhood fireworks out in the country Those snake things were so cool!!

The other best fireworks I've seen was when dh got tickets to a boat that cruised out into the Puget Sound while the professional fireworks were showing. That was awesome because it was right there and we were right under them.

Now I have dogs, have to work the next day and live in a small neighborhood. I hate that people don't think about others and their animals and/or work and PTSD. We had someone's house completely destroyed by their neighbors fireworks. Luckily the house owners were not home and were out to dinner. 

I love them!

I like them. For most of the last 30 years, I've watched them with DH at the lake cabin where the town chamber does a professional display over the lake. It's just beautiful. The only thing I don't like is that one of our current dogs is terrified of anything loud like that.

The best fireworks I've ever been to was in Minneapolis one year. It was a HUGE fireworks display completely timed to patriotic music that was simulcast over the radio. It was amazing, and the grand finale was insane. There were so many going off at once you almost couldn't see them through the smoke.

I like them too...my neighbors put on a good show the other night and I got to watch them around a bonfire in my yard...my dog is also not afraid of them so she was outside with us...

The Colorado Rockies put on an awesome show

I think they are awesome! I loved watching my kids reactions when they first saw them (and understood them, not babies). I think they are beautiful and colorful!

I was among the first to say I don't like fireworks. I don't hate them but they don't do anything for me. I liked when my kids were small, watching the excitement on their faces.

Best fireworks ever? A gf and I planned a group outing to Great Adventure because I was interested in Fred. He and I were at the tippy top of the Ferris wheel watching the fireworks below us.

I love fireworks. I love professional displays, and I love well-organized, as-safe-as-they-can-be legal amateur displays. We used to go all-out for Independence Day -- I had a notebook full of notes about which multi-shot units I liked, and which shells I liked -- single boom shells that go 300 feet into the air before they do one big boom and spread out with special effects. You have to organize those things and get them ready, or you end up with the amateur displays that you wait five minutes between explosions. All you have to do is unwind *all* of the fuses during daylight, make sure there are no obstructions in the path between the organized fireworks and the launch tubes, and make sure you have fire extinguishers and garden hoses at the ready. And a couple of five-gallon buckets filled with water to dunk sizzling duds into!

Gah, I love fireworks. We don't do them any more because we can't afford them, but that is the only reason. There's a town down the road that has a nice display. Unfortunately, they do it on the Fourth precisely, and we have to get up at 4:30 for work. So we missed it this year.

Oh -- there was a girl on the news this weekend, one of the young new presenters, and they had her doing a remote at a fireworks stand. She actually said, "If you're scared of the dangerous bottle rockets, you can always get nice, safe sparklers for the little kids." == Wrong! Wrongest advice ever! I love fireworks, but I never let my children touch sparklers when they were little! If they have them now, I don't know it.

I love to watch other people shoot them across our lake.