Happy Post July 4th

Hope everyone had a cheerful July 4th, despite the rain I hear some people had in their areas.

Despite being away from the festivities, some co-workers and I managed to celebrate in our own way. Saturday afternoon I made my long-desired hash browns while some other friends made breakfast burritos for a delicious "American" brunch. Sunday we had intended to feast on meat meat meat at a Brazilian restaurant, but the non-stop rain resulted in my friend and I not waking up until 2pm. So, instead we hid away from the rain until dinnertime, met up with other co-workers for Korean gogi. Seriously, if there's one thing I'm going to miss when I eventually leave Korea, it will be their beyond amazing barbeque.

Monday we all had to work from 4pm - 10pm, but our branch is one of the few branches that provides light dinner... and I suppose in honor of our holiday, they gave us hot dogs with the fixings.

After work, we went home, changed, and met up for fried chicken, watermelon, and Cass (Korean beer -- basically an extremely watered down Bud Light). Prior to dinner, some of us stopped by Diaso, similar to Dollar Tree but with several floor levels, and bought the cheap firework sets. The good news is they sell them year-round, so....

After eating, we stopped by one of the many 7-11s to purchase snacks, drinks, ice cream, etc. before walking our dinner off over to the river. By this time it was close to midnight so we knew many people would not be near the river.

And then the firework show began. Clearly we are still children at heart. I lost count of how many fireworks we set off, though they weren't giant, but enough to satisfy our firework tastes and honor "Amurica". And certainly last longer than most Fourth of July shows.

We shot off Roman candles (and OF COURSE had to pretend we were in Harry Potter as red and green lights shot from the end). Spinning little UFO-like fireworks kept us highly amused, as did the ones that made noise as they flew around (possibly dangerous). The fountains were cool for 10 seconds... and begged for one of the boys to jump over it, which they naturally did. Boys. -_-

And sparklers. Safe and minimal danger for a klutzy person like me! :D And I discovered I have good aim with the poppers. Must be from my practice of darts.

One of my co-workers took photos, so perhaps at some point once he uploads them to Facebook, I can add them to the blog.

Cheers! Happy Fourth!