Time to celebrate a wonderful day for America!
Today we had a great day! We headed to Mrs. Mellon and Dr. Mellon's house for a picnic. It was nice and the food was yummy! I didn't know many people but I got introduced or introduced myself and had a very nice time! Daddy had to work today so it was so nice to have an invite to go somewhere. It also helped that MeMom and PopPop were there to help out too!
I learned a story about our early presidents, Jefferson and Adams today on the news. Adams always felt like Jefferson was trying to out do him on everything. They actually had a rivalry! While Jefferson was vice president Adams and he stopped talking! Adams made one statement something along the lines of: Since Jefferson does everything better than I do, let me at least out live him. Although for many years the public thought these two men never spoke again they actually began corresponding by letter! When Adams died apparently he made a comment about being unable to outlive Jefferson and said "Long live Thomas Jefferson"... little did he know Jefferson had died several hours earlier on that very day (July 4th) saying, "Long live John Adams" before Adams passed! The mail just wasn't quite as fast in those days to let Adams know "you win"!!
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