4th of July Celebrations

Olmsted Hall that is the Museum now

The horse races at the Monticello Raceway, notice the little buggy the horse is pulling
On the way back we passed by tonz of little privately owned lakes, beautiful homes on the lakes.

We were given the suggestion to drive over to West Point and see the terrific fireworks and band concert. We went with excitement to go see the famous "West Point Academy". The drive was beautiful, green and lush everywhere you looked as we drove over Bear Mountain. The little town of main street looks like we just stepped back in time. We got there just in time to hear that we missed the parade and the fireworks and concert will be postponed due to cloudy weather until tomorrow. What a let down. We are 52 miles away from our place in Monticello. So we thought we would go over to the museum and visitor center, sorry, it closes at 4:30. But the ice cream shop was opened and we enjoyed a cool treat.

We hopped in the car and headed back the way we came, 10 miles past Monticello to a little town called Liberty. We had read in the paper while eating ice cream that they would have fire-works. Now it is 8:30 and we are driving around in this little town trying to find where the high school is to watch the fireworks. We find the fire station and ask about it, "there is no fireworks in this town, you need to go to the race track in Monticello to see fireworks." Come to find out, the raceway could be seen from our balcony if not for the forest of trees. So we drove over to the raceway, parked and watches a couple of the races and waited, and waited along with hundreds of other people who had come to see the fireworks. Long story short - we ended up listening to and watching what we could see thru the trees from our balcony. Fireworks didn't start until 11:05 pm.