Happy Independence Day....a day late!

I hope everyone had a good Fourth of July! Mine was pretty good. I started the day off by watching a couple episodes of "The Revolution", a series about the American Revolution on the History Channel. There was a marathon so I DVRed the rest of the episodes to watch later. I turned the t.v. on and it just happened to be on the history channel and I got sucked in to the show.

When I was thirteen my first big trip away from home by myself was the eighth grade trip to Washington D.C. When I was 22, my sister and I went on a giant road trip across the country and I went back again to a lot of historical sights and monuments. I love Mt. Vernon and Jamestown and Williamsburg, and all the monuments in D.C. I hope to go back again sometime. I'm really glad I found this series, because even though I am somewhat interested in history, I don't know a lot of the facts. Before I go back to the east coast, I'm going to have to read up on my American History. I'm also going to add "John Adams," the miniseries to my Netflix queue. I heard it's excellent.

Anyways, Ben and I went over to his old roommate Paul's house around three for a barbeque. Ben made some awesome beer-can chicken and Paul's wife Kendra made maybe the best fruit salad I've ever had. EVER. Seriously, it was good. It was apples, mangoes, mandarin oranges, and strawberries, with torn mint leaves and a rosemary infused simple syrup. I'm going to have to try and make it sometime. Ben and I also brought one of those little seedless watermelons, which was also sooo good. After the BBQ, Ben and I drove towards "A" Mountain to see Tucson's fireworks and Ben took some pretty good shots!