Fireworks

I was putting Tani to bed last week and there were fireworks going off outside.  Dorney Park is only a few miles away and I think they set off fireworks some nights right before closing the amusement park.  Tani asked what the noise was and I explained it was from fireworks - they also give off pretty light if one is close enough to see.  Tani hasn't seen fireworks yet as these shows occur right around or after his bedtime and I also worried he might be afraid of them.  But Tani seemed very interested in the fireworks sounds.  He called them "fireworkers".  He also asked if they were like thunder.  I explained they were very similar except that fireworks were set off by people but thunder and lightening by Nature.  Last night at bedtime there was a big lightening/thunder storm so we opened the shade to watch the display.

When explaining fireworks I didn't tell Tani they came from Dorney Park because I think he'd want to go over there and not go to bed.  About a week ago we went to "Ice Cream World" which is right across from Dorney Park.  Tani got a cone with mint chocolate chip ice cream, which he discovered he liked after eating some of Mommy Malka's a few weeks before in Wilmington.  Melissa didn't get an ice cream, and I got a cone with vanilla soft serve dipped in chocolate sprinkles.  Tani was eating his ice cream until he saw mine.  Then he wanted to try mine.  He decided he liked my cone with vanilla soft serve and chocolate sprinkles better and passed his off to Melissa.  So I took mine back and got him his own.  By then he had eaten so much of mine that he didn't really eat his new cone.  He wandered outside and saw the tall roller coasters across the street.  "I want to go over there!" he exclaimed pointing to Dorney Park.   It was 7:30 pm and we weren't about to go to Dorney Park right then.   Tani then started sobbing "I want to go to Dorney Park, I want to go to Dorney Park."  He couldn't ride any of the rides he saw since he's under 48".  We've heard there is a kid's section called "Camp Snoopy" which Tani would probably like.  There is also a big swimming pool and some small water rides for kids.  We thought about getting a season pass for Melissa for $100 (Tani is free), as a single admission is $40 plus $10 for parking.  She hasn't taken him there yet but I suspect he'd have a blast.