Communities across San Diego celebrated the nation’s Independence Day and its 250th anniversary with fireworks shows on Saturday night<\/p>\n
At Grape Day Park in Escondido, the park was filled with residents enjoying live music, games, crafts and other activities. But the start of the show began at 9 p.m., when fireworks lit up the night sky.<\/p>\n
Carol Rogers, with the Escondido Business Association, was among those in attendance. \u201cFor the fourth of July, this is absolutely the place to be because it is a totally free event and it’s free music, free crafts, free games, there’s so much to do here while you wait for a phenomenal fireworks show,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, thousands of people packed San Diego Bay for the annual Big Bay Boom celebration.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so iconic because the fireworks are the prettiest, the most grandiose of all the fireworks that I\u2019ve seen, so we come here every year,\u201d Andre Cabardo said.<\/p>\n
Some visitors even crossed the border from Tijuana to celebrate in San Diego, including Gael Ramos.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst time here and my friend too, and totally worth it. We couldn\u2019t find parking. We had to buy $50 parking, but it was totally worth it from the beginning. I thought I was amazed, but at the very end, I didn\u2019t know they could amaze me more, but it was so fun for my first time, totally gonna be here the next year,\u201d Ramos said.<\/p>\n
Families came from near and far to celebrate the Fourth of July in San Diego and spend time with loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communities across San Diego celebrated the nation’s Independence Day and its 250th anniversary with fireworks shows on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[10428,156240,4035,156241,156242,118909,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-387551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-escondido","tag-escondido-business-association","tag-fireworks","tag-free-crafts","tag-grape-day-park","tag-independence-day","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}