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New Haven, Connecticut June 2008 You may not think of New Haven, Connecticut as a typical place to go on vacation for the Fourth of July, but my mother won a free trip there and offered to take me along. We stayed at the Omni and basically ate all weekend long! Besides the free meals included in the prize at the hotel's 19th floor restaurant and the Playwright Irish Pub, we also went to Frank Pepe's Pizzeria and a fantastic Spanish tapas place called Barcelona. We also drove out to Olde Mistick Village in Mystic and to the Indian casinos since there really isn't anything much to do in New Haven!

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Frank Pepe's Pizzeria is a New Haven Institution. They originated the New Haven style of thin crust pizza.	The old bar at Frank Pepe's Pizzeria gives it such a classic look	You know you're in New England when the birch beer is white!
That's a coal fired oven. It gives Frank Pepe's pizza a distinctive taste	Yum! Frank Pepe's Pizzeria started the New Haven style of thin crust pizza.	The view from our 16th floor room at the New Haven Omni was spectacular
The view from our 16th floor room at the New Haven Omni was spectacular	The view from our 16th floor room at the New Haven Omni was spectacular	The view from our 16th floor room at the New Haven Omni was spectacular
The view from our 16th floor room at the New Haven Omni was spectacular	The view from our 16th floor room at the New Haven Omni was spectacular	This church was across from our hotel
Walking around the Yale University campus	Walking around the Yale University campus	Walking around the Yale University campus
Louis Lunch is allegedly where the hamburger was invented. Sadly, they were closed for the Fourth of July when I was there.	Experimenting with long exposure times, but I forgot my tripod at home!	A duck and her ducklings at Olde Mistick Village in Mystic
A duck watches over her ducklings at Olde Mistick Village in Mystic	The ducklings fight to be on the top of the pile	The ducks clamor over each other until they start falling off
These ducks were waiting outside the hair salon. Insert your own joke here.	A duck wanders around Olde Mistick Village in Mystic	Mohegan Sun was more fun than Foxwoods
Taughannick Falls is located on the first floor of Mohegan Sun	This amazing massive glass scultpure is in front of Taughannick Falls at Mohegan Sun