Independence Day Adventures (or) Why Does EVERY American Holiday Center on Food and Booze?

Happy 4th, everyone! Not too terribly much to report on today. I had quite a nice day with some very awesome folks, minus one very important person =-(
Thanks again to Vans for always being a most gracious and accommodating hostess.
Ate delicious food, including:
Curried Carrot Dip
Asparagus Spinach Dip
Seitan Short Ribs
Two Kinds of Potato Salad (yay! Thanks to D and Vans!)
Vans' Guacamole (literally, the best I've ever had)
Steph's Ooey, Gooey, Vegan Coconut Cupcakes (so delish!)
And Vans' Vegan Lemon Fruit Tart

(So good I bit into it before I even had a chance to photograph it!)
Yeah, definitely gained about 10 pounds. Then we staggered over to Morley Field to watch 4 identical, simultaneous fireworks displays. Did some handstands, learned to do cartwheels (thanks girls) and watched local hooligans set off bottle rockets.

If you'd like to see pictures, they can be found here.

Here are a couple photos of note, however:



Here is Hanson, talking to Sarah, and me waving a friendly 4th of July "Hello" to her.



Adam impaling my head with his arm of fury.



How it was.



And how it should have been.

Miss you, Sares!

Tomorrow- Adventures in surfing!