Independence for the Ex-Pat Masses

As a warm blooded American, I couldn't imagine spending a Fourth of July without the essentials: beer and BBQed meat. So, using the magic of Facebook, I invited 10 or so of my friends to a Fourth of July Beer-B-Q, where we could mock our British friends, and talk about how great America is. Ahhemmm.

Anyways, when I got to the party (fashionably late of course) it quickly became apparent that the word had spread on the shindig. By the end of the night, there were easily over a hundred ex-pats from America, England, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, Spain and even Mexico pouring out of a small Dalian bar. Who would have thought the international community would feel the need to celebrate America's independence that strongly? I thought everyone was supposed to hate us these days.

Or maybe it's the old "any excuse to party" frame of mind. That's probably way more likely.

And like any good it involved the Chinese police showing up and trying to convince everyone to go inside. Of course, they were completely unprepared for a mob of foreigners, so we started setting off firecrackers anyway.



happy belated 4th everyone,
Shawn