Hollywood Bowl

For the 4th, Sage, Jeff, Sharon, Rich, Chris and I decided to do the Hollywood Bowl again this year for an evening of fun music and fireworks! We picnic-ed about two hours before the show and enjoyed some seriously gourmet good including Sharon's curried chicken salad, some delicious sun dried tomato and olive tampenade, fruit, chesse and crackers and of course my flag cake :) (oh- and we had like 5 bottles of wine for the evening)



This year, the special guest performing along with the LA Philharmonic was John Fogerty (of CCR). The concert is typically split into three parts - the first being the LA Phil performing some hits by LA composers, then the special guest, then the LA Phil along with the fireworks. While typically the special guest has just been okay (we've seen Kenny Loggins and Randy Newman before), this year John Fogerty was AWESOME! I was so surprised by how fantastic his voice still is and his guitar playing was seriously sick. Plus he played all the big hits and the songs people want to hear, which is nice since not all performers do that. Sometimes I get that they want to perform their new stuff and show they're still developing their art (or whatever), but come on-play what people want to hear! And truthfully, last night I was surprised how many of his/CCR's songs I did know. Jeff was most excited to hear "Centerfield" and literally heard two notes of the song and yelled "YEAH!" really loudly. It was hilarious and I think we all agreed we'd never seen him so excited about anything...ever!

Anyway, we all had an amazing time and I took a little video of the end of the fireworks for your viewing pleasure.


Happy Bday USA!