Tonight we watched the Melaleuca fireworks, broadcast from Idaho Falls. They are reputed to be the most lavish display "west of the Mississippi." The program lasted 31 minutes and during those 1860 seconds they fired off in excess of 16,000 shells, nearly 9 every second. It is a knockout show, I recommend it.
Melaleuca is an Amway-style pyramid marketing firm headquartered in Idaho Falls. Each year on the Fourth of July they bring their top sales people to IF, house them in motels, honor them at a banquet, and stage one heck of a fireworks show that everybody for miles around comes to see.
Idaho Falls' population essentially doubles with people driving in from all over to see the show. For years we would drive nearly 100 miles, have dinner, kill time till the program started at 10 pm, watch the fireworks, and then fight an unbelievable traffic jam to get home. We'd get home about 1 am. We were 20 years younger then, now it's too hard.
Fortunately, my dear lady is technically adept and found an IF TV station was broadcasting it so she located their online feed, linked it via her iPad to our big screen TV. We watched it in the comfort of our living room.
