Fireworks......at a hospital!

On the 4th of July, it was about 900 degrees outside - really, no joking. So I had a dilemma about the whole fireworks thing....how bad did I really want to see them when I would be sweating my brains out??

Anyway, I have a friend who works at the big Baylor University Medical Center in downtown Dallas and there's an observation deck on the 17th floor...overlooking Fair Park where the fireworks were being shot off right above the Cotton Bowl...hmmmm......a hospital is a very odd place to watch fireworks from.....but it was air conditioned, non-porta-potty-bathrooms, easy parking, no crowds, no bugs, it was a no-brainer!

While we were all waiting for the fireworks to begin, I looked around at the small crowd that was forming on the 17th floor, I realized that I have never spent the night at the hospital (much less a holiday) since I was born! I am very thankful for this fact and have been VERY fortunate not to have had any major health problems in my life. There were patients up there in the observation deck that had amputated limbs, neck braces on, broken arms, IV carts with bags of fluid, etc. It was eye-opening for me!

Also up there watching the fireworks were a bunch of the resident doctors that basically live there. They looked kind of tired!

And just for funsies, since I'm so freaked out by dead bodies and stuff like that, my friend who is a nurse at Baylor, took me down to the basement and walked me past the morgue! AAAAGGGHHHH!!!!! It's a big door (bigger than a normal people door), but no sign that says that it's the morgue - just a little plaque with instructions for funeral homes and a phone. CREEPY!!!