Cinco de Mayo! Who knew this would ever become an event that I would celebrate and look forward too. Nonetheless, it has become exactly that, along with St. Patrick's Day, etc. It's amazing to me how now that we're out of the college atmosphere these holidays become even more an excuse to get together with friends (as opposed to every Friday and Saturday night)

Even better now is being able to play the horn again....... (Patrick with local guitar phenom George Hartvagen)

And then there was our very first experience walking the Bloomsday. 41/2 miles we walked - did not get the t-shirt, but I did get to play a lot of cowbell with a righteous blues band by the name of "Back Beat Revival". We can talk more about that in private.