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If you’re a travel nurse, enjoying the Sunshine State on one coast or the Golden State on the other, it makes perfect sense that you’d want to add a little sparkle to your summer by attending special, localized 4th of July events.

So, here’s your 411 while we’re still in June. Save this post to your desktop and refer back to it for info on the best holiday weekend events. Independence Day is on a Sunday this year—a day of peace, rest, and, this time, 2010 fireworks!

Travel nurses close to the Sacramento 4th of July Celebration are in luck! Each year Cal Expo offers the largest-scale pyrotechnics display in the area’s history. Beginning at 4:30 at the state fairgrounds, this is a travel nurse’s chance to fall in love with the sound of the US Air Force Band of the Golden West, check out some live harness racing, and behold a gorgeous spectacle in the summer night sky at 9:30pm.

California travel nursing jobs anywhere near San Francisco can’t help but glow with its unique side-by-side fireworks display—heralded as a premier Pier 39 event. From the pier just below Ghirardelli Square to the barge near the well-known Pier 39, fireworks will dually grace the night sky—just remember to bundle up!  As one of our favorite Americans, Mark Twain once said: “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”

California travel nurses at the southern end of the state won’t want to miss the Big Bay Boom in San Diego; this July 4th Fireworks Show celebrates its 10th year lighting up San Diego Bay. Fireworks will be discharged simultaneously from four barges placed just off Shelter Island, Harbor Island, North Embarcadero, Seaport Village and the Coronado Ferry Landing.

Of course, our “sampling” of what Independence Day has in store this year is merely that; but we’d like to think we’ve touched on the big ones, and that’s why we leave you with this book-markable link to Americafest 2010 at the Rosebowl in Pasadena—it’s the biggest fireworks display and big band parade in all of Southern Cal; prepare accordingly!

And now we travel to this country’s great South East where Florida nursing jobs are heating up this 4th of July with hot-to-trot events; it’s like every beach along the coast is part of a lit fuse, with West Palm Beach offering the 4th on Flagler, and a chance to witness the naturalization of new American citizens at Miami Beach’s 4th of July festivities. What could be more patriotic than that?

If shopping for art and Florida souvenirs is more your thing than the beach, Lake Buena Vista—property of The Mouse in Orlando—is a great place to check out a trifecta of fireworks over Disney Parks at the Magic Kingdom, Epcot and MGM Studios.

Wherever you go in the weeks leading up to this year’s Independence Bay, the 4th of July buzz surrounds your travel nurse jobs—just wait until that buzz becomes a pop—enjoy the fireworks!