So what's been going on the last few days?

Yesterday we did our movie-going duty and saw Spider-Man 2. Liked it, especially as it focused more on the mental or psychological aspects of things (or ast least as much focus as you get from a summer blockbuster). Thought Alfred Molina did a nice job as Dr. Octopus.

On the 4th we did our usual, going up to Manchester for the parade and then to my sister's (using her pool while her family was away). The parade was much better content-wise than in the past, good number of bands and even some interesting floats. But it continues to have large delays, either in the "intermission" variety where you have 5-10 minutes between seeing things, or the thing just stops for a similar stretch of time.

I had hoped to see some of my high school classmates, but the impromptu trip to my sister's put the kibosh on that.

For those of you who were at the wedding, you may remember Dean Burgess, an old friend from Manchester who was the groomsman who wasn't my brother or Shawn DeVeau. Saw him at the parade and learned that he'd just gotten engaged, which was fantastic news!

On the 3rd we honored America in a somewhat dorky way by taking in parts of the Minute Man National Park, which runs through sections of Concord, Lincoln, and Lexington. We saw the North Bridge, where colonials turned back the Brits and started the retreat under fire that went pretty much all the way to Boston. We also got to see some of the colonal buildings that were involved in that retreat along the Bay Road.

Walking that part of the road was probably the most amazing part of the visit, as you get a real sense of just how closely fought this thing was. The road itself is about 8 feet wide at best, and at the time would have been open farmland (there are a lot of trees and other growth now). Also pretty amazing to think that this dirt path was, at the time, the main link to New York.