My mischeivous husband took a trip to Wyoming way back when he was a scout (27ish years ago) and bought some "illegal" fireworks (for Utah that is). He didn't use them all and had them in a sack that his mom found about 6 or 7 years ago and she brough them to us. We have had them in our coat closet and pulll one or two of them out to shoot on New Years Eve every year.
This year, Utah changed it's law on fireworks, and while some of those are now legal, I'm pretty sure that bottle rockets still are not, but he brought them out anyway to teach his boys. He finds it fun to hold them in his hand until they are almost ready to shoot off and then throws them in the air. The boys got brave and decided sparklers were too boring and wanted a try at it. They were so funny because they were worried they would wait to long and would hurry and throw them without paying attention to where they were throwing them, so they ended up going up and coming part way back down before they would shoot off. I had to keep covering my head as I was afraid I was going to lose it whenever Travis threw one. They finally got the hang of the timing and did pretty good at the end. Trevin, luckily, just put them in the bottle and lit them to shoot off from there. Then they got adventurous and would wind the wicks of several of them together at once and put them all in the bottle and shoot a whole bunch at a time. Once the bottle fell over and one of them fell out and into the firepit. You've never seen the 5 of us run for cover so quickly. Luckily, the ashes in the firepit extinguished it and it didn't shoot off.
There were also some fun spinning things that whirled around really fast. The boys would each pick a color and put them all together and light them all at once and whichever one whirled the furthest from the center starting point would win. They had tons of fun! Sean's comment, "Now this is what teenage boys should be doing."
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