5th of July

Yeah, we celebrated and made a spectacle of ourselves and it was good. The weather : it rained.
No surprise there. Rained and rained and rained. But Scott grilled those burgers and hot dogs and I baked those beans and it was good.
We could not find any fireworks anywhere. Not even a pack of sparklers for the kids. Everyone said that they do not start selling them until October. Sigh. But we has a bag of poppers left over from New Years Eve and we popped them all - in the dining room.
Then we tried really hard to shove all the mentos into the diet colas, but I did not realize that you had to have a test tube or similar object to really get them in fast and all at once. The guys did their best, bless 'em, and we did acheive a height of about 10 ten, once.

We had three American guys - all volunteering for various amounts of time. One guy, Andy, is a WEC missionary kid, and really has only lived in the US for the past two years. He was raised in Turkey and South east Asia. We also had Chelsea, an young American women, who has been with Betel for six months and flies home to Pennslyvania on Tuesday. The rest of our group was made up of four rowdy Scots and two Brits and Beth. I work with Beth, she is from Virginia and is married to one of the Brits. She brought her cat over - Festus - who is the brother to my cat - Lulubelle, and we also celebrated their birthdays. The cats. Not Beths or anyone else. We had a cat birthday cake and presents: Salmon treats, yummmmmm.

The kids played Apples to Apples with the guests which ended in a shouting match, but it usually does. Because of the rain, we did not make too much noise and no police were called to the scene. Darn. But we had fun and that was good.

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