more and more fireworks

I invited my family over for a 4th of July and birthday-eve dinner this evening. It's my brother's birthday tomorrow. The idea was that we would have dinner, visit, and about 9:30 walk to a nearby park to watch the downtown fire works.  However when we walked out of my building we discovered that there was a perfect view from the parking lot right here. So we found a comfy stretch of curb and enjoyed a spectacular show being shot off the top of the electric company building.  For a minute a had a twinge of balcony envy, thinking how nice it was for the people with apartments on the south side of our building to be able to sit on their balconies and watch the show. As I was riding back up in the elevator, though, I met a couple who live on my side of the building. They told me to be sure to watch from my balcony because fireworks would be going off all over the north side of Ft. Wayne and beyond and they were so right. There are sporadic bursts of fireworks all around me.  I'm also really intrigued with the 'glow balls' that people are sending up into the air.  In the dark they look like little orange balls of fire just quietly floating along - a nice contrast to the frantic pace of the fireworks.  My son tells me these 'glow balls' are fire (a candle?) supported by a framework under a small hot air balloon. As the interior of the balloon heats up the balloons float up, up and away. At night all you see is the glowing fire, very cool.  I want to launch one next year, maybe off my balcony???