Endless Summer

Last night I had the pleasure of enjoying a few of my favorite things –
A warm summer night, a Rockies game, the company of a good friend, flip-flops, and a hotdog!

Isn’t summer the best?
When you are a kid, you wait all school year for summer. As the days begin to grow longer, you count down the minutes, imagining all the adventures you’ll stumble upon. And finally, it arrives, you are granted 3 months of freedom! You spend your days riding bikes with your friends, chasing after the ice cream man, and if you were really good – a trip to the beach! Then as dusk arrives, you get to lay in the front porch swing, drinking a glass of cold lemonade, trading cabbage patch kid cards with the neighbors. Then it's dinner time, and you are called to the backyard for a barbeque, complete with potato salad, grape soda and hotdogs!!! To end yet another perfect day, you spend the rest of the night running barefoot through the grass, chasing fireflies and hoping to steal a kiss from your summer crush.

As I get older, the sheer joy of summer hasn’t faded.
Sure, the lemonade has changed to beer, the 3 months of freedom is packed into 15 glorious weekends, but we will always have hotdogs, flip-flops and fireworks!
Magnificent, wonderful fireworks!

Fourth of July is only 6 days away, and I for one can’t wait!