Proud to be an American

Well, i didn't get many fireworks this year.  I didn't get to go out on a lake or to the beach and i certainly didnt get to drink beer all day in a pool.  But I did get to have a barbecue to do a little celebrating.

The good thing is that fire works are legal here, so we can have a big blowout any time we want.

So, we celebrated the night before by buying a small grill, charcoal, hot dogs and buns, watermelon (which are expensive here), chips, and i made a berry crisp in my rice cooker.  Oh and marshmallows.  And we headed over to a nice park/ lake (man made, very small lake)

It took all our might to try and celebrate 4th of July like an American.  First we set up out grill.  We only had a small lighter, which got melted in the process to light the coal.  It took about an hour to get the grill ready.

Oh i went with Katie and Breann, and i met about four new people which was nice.  One guy is Canadian and another is Korean.  Th Korean wanted to see what Americans do on their Independence day.

Since we had a fire for a bit we figured we'd start with the mallows

It was exciting.  We figured America is the only country who roasts marshmallows.  We made sure the Korean guy tried one.  He was skeptical.  He said, "this candy?  what is this taste?"   You probably had to be there for it to be funny.  

Then we made the hot dogs

Now, we thought we were on a roll until one of the hot dogs explodes.  Seriously.  Then one guy mentions that they might be wrapped in plastic.  Why???????  Why????  WHy???  do u wrap an individual hot dog when they already come in a sealed bag? Why Korea? Why? 

*Side note: Korea has a problem with plastic.  They think that if they are recycling they are ok.  But no, you're only adding to the problem Korea.  Everything is individually wrapped and when you receive something its usually in about 3 different bags or wrapping of some kind.  Its so stupid. I've never had to deal with so much plastic in my life *

So, we had to individually unwrap the darn hot dogs.  The Korean said that they do this for hygienic reasons.  But we figured thats not right either because now the hots dogs are smothered in our greasy, dirty, germy hands due to unwrapping them.  (But a true Korean would wear plastic gloves while doing this, thus defeating the purpose of wrapping the dog in plastic in the first place....  my eyes are dramatically rolling)

Ok, so then we finally made some.  And we were happy.  

Me, Breann, Alexis, Breann

Our spread.  

Oh and we had no forks, one giant knife and four chopsticks that we used as our skewers for the mallows.  And cups, which we ate the berry crisp in with out fingers.   Overall, it was a fun night.  Made for some good laughs.  

And when it was all over all we had was this:

A brown bag of watermelon rhine that splatters on the ground as we walk home.  At that point we truly gave up.  Oh ya, there was a hot dog in there (one in plastic) that got left behind.  Pretty much sums up our night of fun!  

Happy Fourth!  I hope it was better for you!