Celebrating the 4th with friends!
"Happy Birthday dear USA, Happy Birthday to you..."
Flags, friends and SALAD! Yum!
Thanks Amy for the awesome 4th of July decorations! You are the best!
Peace!INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Oh what a wonderful word that word "Independence" is. Oh how it runs throughout our blood stream as Americans. We yearn for it. We strive for it. Heck, we all would have moved out of the house when we turned 16 if we could have. I would have started my own bike company, sailed around the world, soloed Mt. Everest, and ridden in Le Tour de France, all by the time I turned 10 (Not to say that there are not any 10 year olds in American that have accomplished such feats)! And God bless The United States of America for it! We learn to aspire to be great. That we can accomplish anything we put our mind, and hard work towards. We think outside the box, we innovate, we invent, we overcome, and, interestingly enough, TOGETHER we achieve greatness! And it is not because we are greedy westerners. It is because we are independent! We are independent thinkers, and we are FREE to think independently! And it is because our four fathers fought for it, and declared it in writing; it (independence) will forever be ingrained in our American bones.
Out of all the wonderful places that I have travelled in my life, the rights and freedoms that American's are blessed with are truly unique. We are so blessed, in fact, that we would even take an extra long period in our lives to volunteer and live in another nation and culture to help out with whatever we can. That is absurd! Who in their right mind would do that? And that is why many nations, to this day, don't quite understand us, or who we are. For that is the reason that Em and I are hanging out here in this wonderful country!
Man oh man are we lucky!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU…
We sang happy birthday to American! It was beautiful. Our good friend Hamid, and his twins, Hasnah, and Hassan, came over for a couple of hours to partake in the festivities on the 4th of July. 'God Bless America' and the 'Star Spangled Banner' were a little too complicated to teach, so we settled for Happy Birthday. Hamid sang baritone, Hasnah and Hassan sang Tenor and Soprano. Emily, Tina, and I handled back up. It was beautiful!
FOR YOU RACE FANS…
On the way to Errachidia this week our bus driver decided to pass, not only one bus, but two buses (AT ONCE!). He attempted said maneuver about two tenths of a mile outside a blind left hand corner. Given the fact that the bus tenant was handing out barf bags on the straight-aways, I had 100% confidence that we would be able to accomplish this trick. Halfway in, after over-taking the first bus, a small van decided to pull out in front of the second bus, on the right hand side of the road. Luckily we had just made it past the second buses' blind spot, and he was able to hit the brakes and allow us to pass before we reached the left hand turn. Now even though I am a man that will preach on his blog about being free to do anything I want because I am an American! There is no way in heck I would have tried to pull a stunt like that off!
Please enjoy the pics!
Until next time…
Posts
