every year my best friend and i throw a huge party for the 4th, usually around 70-100 people, including a couple local kids charities. we go all out with things like blow up water slides, a dunk tank, swimming pool, water balloons, etc etc, very kid oriented. for the adults my friend owns a microbrewery so we always have lots of great beer on tap. one of the big draws, and my personal favorite, is the fireworks show.
due to health reasons the last few months have sucked for me so i am really looking forward to this year's celebration. as a result we went a little overboard and broke the $2k mark, not even thinking about the fact that i drove the 911. after removing all the big mortars from the boxes and getting very creative we fit it all inside the car.
those big ones in the footwells are 4000 count strands of firecrackers - they go on forever! hate the mess they make but it's worth it in the end.
the owner (and every employee there at 2am when we finally finished shopping) came out to see if it could be done. like so many other times this lead to a few porsche stories being swapped and 35 mins later we were still talking. just as we were about to get in the car the owner asked us to wait a minute as he walked back into the store. he came back out with a camera and asked if he could take some shots of the packed car for his store. of course i let him and after he was done he gave us another $350 worth of big ticket items (2 to be exact) as thanks for letting him use my car in the promo shots. made for a nice end to the trip
