july hike: picnic and fireworks at shoreline

june slipped away without hikes.

i'm counting the july 4th fireworks watching as my july hike. the fireworks were at shoreline park and we parked 2.5 miles away and hauled our picnic stuff over there on foot. it was a great sidewalk hike. we had picnic on the golf course, right outside the yellow line enclosing the pyrotechnicians. we played card games, endured a bit of the evening chill, and watched all 300 and more fireworks -- one of our friends brought a little radio so we could hear the pyrotechnician counting. i'm not so keen on the idea of celebrating 4th of july, but the fireworks were majestic and the picnic was great fun. we walked back after the show and gloatingly passed about 2 miles of traffic-jammed cars.

that was the 4th, which still counted as the beginning of july, but in the blink of an eye, a third of july is almost gone. should i panic? or should i stay calm? -- is there a choice to make?