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Well sprucemagoo, the idea was to use a plugin called jQuery Color that allows for transitions between one color to another.  This can also be done with CSS 3 transitions as well, but it wouldn't work with the ancient browsers such as IE8 and below.  So the plan was to use this plugin, and initiate a hover event that when a user hovered over a top-level li tag, the entire navigation bar would animate from one color to another.  Unfortunately, there's a snag in the plugin that makes the target, in this case the nav bar, revert to a white background and then it keeps flashing.  Truth be told, I didn't look at the code in the plugin very much to see if I could fix it. 

In going a different route with the navigation and jQuery, I left the script in there because I still wanted the nav bar to change colors when the top-level li tags are hovered over rather than make a global li:hover selector.