Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Baby, You're a Firework

Katy Perry's song will forever be burned into the Independence Day mix of songs. Sometimes I love the song, other times I long for some Ray Charles, "America the Beautiful".
And Team America... that's a whole different story.

When I think of July 4th, I think of:
- nathan's hotdog eating contest... it's like a trainwreck waiting to happen, you have to watch it!
- fireworks before they were banned in my city.
-poppers, that may have been popped to close to my face once.... (you know who you are!)
- the National Mall.
-fireworks at the hotel pool at home. (where I almost drown)
- the American traditions and how they may not be appropriate to mention in England, "Happy Independence, from you losers. America!!" Somehow, they don't think it's awesome...
-watching the fireworks from the top of an office building in DC with my sister.
-fireworks in general remind me of my brother...

What does the 4th of July remind you of?


2 comments:

  1. honestly the 4th of July has always been a really disappointing holiday. When we lived in Japan of course, no one else celebrated the holiday or even know what it was. Then living in Othello was just as bad. One year the fireworks had to be cancelled because the immigration van came to town looking for illegals and they all fled. Being married has never been better. There is always something about the 4th that hasn't been great, even this year at the ocean, the kids just kind of ruined it. But Christmas - that's a holiday I can wrap my heart around. :)

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  2. Christmas is definitely up there for me as holidays go. I just love fireworks.... a lot.

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