If you don't feel like flipping your own burgers and risking burned fingers at the backyard fireworks this year, you might want to figure the Waterfront Independence Festival into your plans this coming weekend, July 3 and 4.

Let me start by saying that I'm not encouraging you to buy fireworks in Indiana and take them across the river to Kentucky—that, my friends, is illegal, and I don't want to hear you complain when your truckload of fireworks is confiscated. What I am saying, though, is that sparklers aren't as much fun when you're an adult, but they're pretty much the most exciting fireworks you can buy in Kentucky because of the stringent fireworks laws on that side of the river.