If you don't feel like spending big money at your local fireworks stand, then how about you pack up the kids and head to one of the many Independence Day celebrations across Acadiana?
One of my favorite places, The Grand Opera House of the South in Crowley, opens its 2016-17 season Friday night with performances by Sonny Landreth and Roddie Romero.
I really did fly in an F-16 Fighting Falcon, an actual United States Air Force Thunderbird!
In October of 2011, the Sertoma Club of Lafayette hosted an air show at Lafayette Regional Airport and the USAF Thunderbirds were the stars of the show...