Friday my friends and I all gathered at my parents' house outside of Lincoln for some good ol' fireworks-related fun. As they say, there's no better way to celebrate your country's independence than by blowing up a piece of it. I had drove to Missouri a few weeks prior and picked up a healthy amount of high quality, illegal (at least in Nebraska) fireworks to affirm that the show would be as spectacular as ever.

Among the arsenal: roughly 125 Artillery Shells, a roll of 16,000 firecrackers, a bunch of rockets, some other miscellaneous items, and a couple of these bad boys: