Well, another failed attempt to start a literary feud. Thanks, though to galleycat for helping me fan the flames.
I spent Saturday in New Jersey, where I attended the Ridgewood 4th of July parade. Apparently it's the biggest parade in New Jersey. The bands were good, and you have to love the Shriners in their go-carts (They were, after all, on the cover of a Dead Kennedys album), but, I mean, once you've seen 11 or 12 firetrucks, the next 25 just start to seem redundant. Only the elementary schools had floats, and the one that looked the best was playing "God Bless The USA", so I think that may have canceled out its awesomeness. And nobody was throwing candy! What's up with that?
Against my wife's advice, I wore my Red Sox hat to the festivities and did not receive any abuse as a result.
We arrived at the fireworks display at 8:15, with fireworks scheduled to start an hour later. But it started to rain, and, in a shocking display of common sense, they started the fireworks early! It was a fantastic show--well worth getting rained on for.
Saturday we went to the wedding of one of my wife's co-workers-great wedding, reception with uncommonly good food-- (I had a delicious polenta with grilled veggies) and a candy buffet!
Question, though-- why is it that the nicer the hotel, the more they screw you on the extras? We stayed at this beautiful, elegant hotel, and they served us a "continental breakfast" that was so skimpy any Holiday Inn Express would have been embarrassed by it. What the heck? We ended up going out to a delicious breakfast elsewhere.
