Happy Fourth of July, Everyone!

This was a big work weekend for Janice so we decided sort of at the last minute to stay put here in Connecticut. We cancelled our flights to / from STL on Friday. We are missing the fun in St. Peters with Joe & Joyce, Susie, Dan and David, but are making the best of it out here.

Saturday night was Riverfest 2005 down at the Hartford Riverfront, so we made our way downtown for dinner and to watch the fireworks. It was a real mob scene downtown, as many thousands of people were there for the show. It was pretty good, actually.

Last night we went to Harbor Park Restaurant on the Connecticut River down in Middletown, and had a fun night there. There were a couple of bands on the large deck, and we even bumped into our next door neighbor and his girlfriend. We could see fireworks down the river, from we believe Putnam, CT, so that was fun as well.

Today, we may celebrate the Fourth by going up to Lakeville CT's Lime Rock Park to watch the American Le Mans New England Grand Prix. It's going to be televised on the SPEED channel, so you may want to look for us in the crowd. Lime Rock is a pretty renowned road course in the US, and Paul Newman is somewhat of a regular there.

Anyhoo ... that's about it from here. We hope everyone has a wonderful Fourth!