Mark your bucket list for next year. Contributing blogger Cathy Healy watched DC’s fireworks from the roof of her condo building. She was feeling smug until she discovered that a friend in Orlando won the prize for Best of Show.
Fourth of July occurs every night in this fantasyland where fireworks light up Cinderella’s castle and the geodesic dome at Epcot Center. So what’s special about the real 4th in Orlando? It’s bigger, better, and sooner. Orlandoans erupt with cheers for fireworks on July 3 with the Red, White and Boom show, a few miles up I-4 in Altamonte Springs, says Mari Lynch. The next night, some residents, like Mari’s husband, Michael, an Orlando native, and their seventh-grade twins, John and Liam, join visiting friends to make a Disney night of it on the Fourth.
Fourth of July occurs every night in this fantasyland where fireworks light up Cinderella’s castle and the geodesic dome at Epcot Center. So what’s special about the real 4th in Orlando? It’s bigger, better, and sooner. Orlandoans erupt with cheers for fireworks on July 3 with the Red, White and Boom show, a few miles up I-4 in Altamonte Springs, says Mari Lynch. The next night, some residents, like Mari’s husband, Michael, an Orlando native, and their seventh-grade twins, John and Liam, join visiting friends to make a Disney night of it on the Fourth.
That’s when the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Movie Studios combine forces to shower your senses with 35 minutes of fireworks, smoke, fiery torches, lasers and music, starting at 9 p.m. and ending at 10:16 pm. These aren’t your usual fabulous displays, these are multimedia, pyrotechnic Disney stories, with patriotic extras.
Let’s pause for truth in reporting: “Why would anyone come to Orlando in July?” asks Mari. “It’s 95 and humid!”
Answer: To cool off from Washington, D.C., where thermometer stayed stuck at 103 for days. Full Story