Celebrating the 4th with a Rant on history!

Happy 4th of July!! It's crazy that's its already July. What a big month. Sara and Andy's wedding is next weekend and then we are off on our baby journey. But today is the 4th of July and while the masses are out BBQ-ing and drinking their bodyweight in beer as a salute to our forefathers ingenuity, my lovely wife and I are at the doctors office for a rogue right eye. Being a ridiculous history buff (hence my excitement over our trip to Boston last summer) I am taking a moment to marvel at how far we've come. When men like Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were pondering how best to build a new nation, someone with an eye infection as awesome as Karen's would have been giving an eye patch and told "good luck with that." Now I can't help but think of the childhood favorite "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and how if these men saw what was going down in front of me in this office, they would loose there mind. Medicine, technology... Any and all science really has skyrocketed since the beginning of our country but the idea for this new government that these men created has persevered. The ambiguity of these documents have made them able to withstand the changing that happens over time. So my dorky self takes a moment to be in awe of the beginning of our country, not the myths that were taught in our history classes, but the real story of real men making history.

And with that rant, stay safe, have fun, and drink to our fore fathers! Happy 4th of July!