Home sweet home

We're back from San Jose (we decided to go, in the end) and home again home again jiggity jig. It's smokey, but the fire has gotten a lot better because today the wind wasn't too strong so the firefighters were able to fight it pretty well.
It turns out it's about 3 miles away from our house, but it looks a lot closer because we could see it on the hills. We looked when the sun went down to see if we could see any orange glow. It looks like it has retreated on the other side of the hill, because we can't see much from our place. It's still smokey, though. Also, we missed some gas mask distribution they had yesterday. It was for people who can't avoid being outside in the smoke, they gave out free masks. I wish I got one, but I have a feeling they weren't cool ones (Are you my mummy?), but they were like those papery ones you use for gardening. Lame.
I think it won't be long until the fire is gone, so we probably don't have any cool pictures to post.

Oh also, our 4th of July wasn't too good, we went to San Jose, but we didn't see any fireworks!! It really isn't 4th of July for me if there isn't any fireworks, so 2008 seems pretty empty. Anyway, peace out.