Independence Day at Estes Park

Yesterday my wife and I went to Estes Park for the afternoon and did a little canoeing on the reservoir (satellite picture here). It was a beautiful day and we had a great time.

One thing I noticed, though, was there were a lot of Latinos there, well more than the 14% that the last census says makes up the country as a whole.

Note: I’m not complaining about that, just making an observation. My wife is from China, and I lived in a predominantly (as in 90%) Mexican neighborhood in Chicago for 6 years. So I’m hardly anti-immigration.

The funny thing is, I noticed that everyone, like people on July 4 everywhere else, was eating hotdogs, hamburgers, potato chips etc. No tacos, churros, tortas or any other traditional Mexican dishes. But my wife and I ate chips and homemade salsa, as well as some watermelon. The point? Maybe the US really is a melting pot.

Next year we’ll probably get a room at the lodge and stay for the fireworks, but this time we came home in the late afternoon to avoid the sure-to-be-brutal mountain traffic. Later in the evening we went to see the fireworks at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field. In a word, awesome. A perfect Independence Day.

An now back to work…

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