>>>Bill,
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>>>Completely off the pun-ny stuff, enjoy yourself. I'll be up in your neck of the woods (kinda) the first week of July.
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>>Thanks George! Will you be able (or do you even want to? <BG>) see the fireworks downtown? I'm lobbying to take the family down this year.
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>Probably not, Bill. The people we'll be staying with live on a huge farm in Libertyville and sometimes do their own firework displays. Besides, if memory serves, is that the week of "Taste of Chicago"? My wife and I got hung up the traffic at midnight one day at that event. Bumper-to-bumper at midnight? No thanks, did that once, don't want to do it again.:-)

I understand! Yes, the Taste is that same week. That's why we haven't gone since the kids were born, 10 years ago. We take the train in though, so traffic isn't quite so bad.