7-9-2011 Happy Birthday Alexandria

Every year Alexandria celebrates its Birthday on the weekend after the fourth. Since we had been in Albuquerque over the Fourth and missed the DC version, we though this would be good to see. It is Alexandria's 262nd BD. We walked down to the waterfront park - it was actually not too hot - and found a spot right behind the 4 howitzers that the Marine Cadets from Quantico had brought. We had to wait about 90 minutes for it to get dark enough. The Alexandria Symphony played the 1812 Overture and the fireworks went off at the end - a nice show - probably nothing to compare with DC's but then there were 20x fewer people probably - and we could just walk home.