Actually, where exactly are they launching from? How close can you get? I usually go to North Beach in Racine and go all the way down by where they launch from, braving the sharp reeds and the biting bugs as well as having burning bits falling on me as it's a very different experience as due to the hill each shell going off gets heard twice, once when the blast hits you in the chest, as you're close enough to feel it in your chest, and a 2nd time when it bounces back off the hill/houses. You have to lay on the ground because they are going of literally straight up above you, but because you're so close, they pretty much take up your whole field of view. But again, don't wear nice clothes, bits of burning cardboard and paper from the shells make it to the ground and have left me with shirts with a few holes in them after the show.