July 4th Weekend

my july 4th weekend plans had a real early start with an impromptu decision to visit my childhood pal aniket ( aka huggies ) in cincinnati on thursday evening ... aniket was in the US for some official business and was going to fly out on saturday ... on way i dropped harry at dayton and reached cinci by 9:30 pm ... felt real good to see aniket even tough i had last seen him just about 5 months back ... had a hearty chat and went off to sleep .. friday morning aniket had a small presentation at GE ..so i went off to meet my MIT college-mate, Udayan who is doing his MS in Cincinnati ... had breakfast ( half-burnt omlette ;)and spent some time looking around UC campus ... around noon drove back to the Marriott where aniket was staying and we immediately left for Columbus, Indiana to meet Pushkar and to pick up Amit Surve... had a great lunch at Pushkar's place and then we three drove back to Cinci ... had dinner at some indian restaurant downtown and were so full that we changed original plans of driving back to Ann Arbor in the night and helped aniket pack his bags as he had to leave early sat morning ... me and amit left cinci sat morning and picked up harry and soumya on the way at dayton .. oh .. i should'nt forget to mention the amazing brakfast we had at 'Waffle House'! ... reached back to AA right in time for a wondrful lunch that mom had prepared ... Sat evening we headed for some fireworks at Hudson Mills Metropark, Dexter ... and was amazed to see the number of people who had come in there .. there must've been atleast a 1000 cars there ... the fireworks were pretty good tough ! .. Sunday was happening with both Wimbledon and the Euro Cup finals lined up one after the other ... and this was followed up by two back to back films at Showcase ... 'Dodgeball' followed by 'Spiderman 2' ... dodgeball was hilarious and i liked spiderman too ... so had enuf fun to keep me charged for quite some time ( at least till next weekend :))