4th July - Get your flag out?

4th of July weekend...what does it mean i ask to an american friend...'bbq, fireworks, chill, beer, sometimes family'

We started friday night with a few beers with shirley and butter who paid us a visit from Seattle. Saturday we chilled all afternoon with the Desai family, played scrabble (Arati won again, but she is coaching me for my coming back to the UK to meet the other big rival : Mag Leahy, you know her she used to call herself the IICG : Innocent Irish Catholic Girl)
Sunday, after another chilling afternoon at Moonshadows which, to be honest, is one of the best places to hang out, lounge music, oysters, great view of the ocean, we went to the Waterfront (as it was a cleear view) and the fireworks kicked in, The atmosphere was fun, beer, sand, drum circle, silhouette on the beach, waves crashing on the sand and in the background, fireworks on a palm trees landscape. Never seen anything like it. In the whole bay, we could see ' Ze finale'
Monday bbq at Claudia and Lino where i played handball with the crazy (but very sweet) Sheila Darcey (rime).
But the whole weekend we pretty much loved being close to the chilliest baby in the whole world, little Rio and i think yes we are part of this family. Don't they say the family of the 21st century are friends?

- bbq, fireworks, chill, beer....i think we have done it all.
oh no, we did not do the flag thing.......is this too bad, not patriotic?