Saturday, September 26, 2009

Firework Friday-
One interesting thing about living near Branson with all it's entertainment and the new convention center is that , occationally, you get some free entertainment worth enjoying. In all honesty, Branson is still a small town, so you are very likely to see several people you know mixed in with all the tourists at events like last night.
There was a "last blast" sort of concert at the Landing last night and, it just so happened that a firework association was having a convention at the Hilton center, so they did a few displays of their work.
It was a football game night and Maura had to attend, with no leaving early. That made it so we had to take two cars to the fireworks. I took Delaney, her friend and the puppy and Steve went to the game then brought Maura. The puppy is a people magnet. People of all ages loved him and wanted to pet him. We are working on him being able to be in crowds and behaving himself. We were also hoping he'd learn to deal with fireworks better than our other dog did.
The football game was a slaughter 38 to 0 with our team being the 0. That doesn't really surprise anyone and I really don't know why people bother to go watch. If Maura wasn't in band, we wouldn't even notice the games. There's too many kids just running loose at the games and , while the schools are telling the kids they need to sit with their parents, no one has told the parents(that I know of) , so they continue to run wild. Why else would the people go if they weren't going to see their friends? It's not for the success of the team.
Anyway, back to the fireworks. They had several different performers from different shows in town perform then at two seperate times, they put on firework displays. The early one was short, but very interesting because it had fireworks going off from the buildings as well as the center stage area. The second one was longer, done to a beatles medley, and a bit more traditional, but did have some effects I'd never seen before that was very cool. I have to also say that all of these had to be very precise and not go too high because the space available for them to work in is really quite small.
The Landing is on the shore of lake Taneycomo which is really more like a river, with a steep cliff on the far side and houses perched on top. With the viewing area behind the stage area, placed between two buildings, I was amazed at how well they controlled the height and placement of all of the flashes. In addition, it was a fairly decent effort of timing them to the music playing. I think they did a good job of proving they could have fireworks in smaller venues, if that was their point. In general, with how our 4th of july fireworks work, with so many boats on the lake (tablerock) they would have to get them much higher.
After the fireworks, the Beatle group in town performed. I don't know what it is about their songs, but they do make you feel happy, but I have to be honest and say I've heard better beatle tribute bands. Maybe they would be better in a theatre though.
I had a moment of wondering why I felt so alone there, what my expectations were, if they were too unrealistic and if something vital is slipping away.

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