You Are My Sparklers

HI GUYS!

It's the 4th of July here in South Korea. We usually spend Independence Day with Joe's family (mine gets Easter,) but this year we are 93487534 miles away from our families, and that is sad. So here are some pictures to make our families less sad.

What we're doing today:

Does anyone else think I look a little like Aunt Saundra in this picture?

SURPRISE! It's video games. In the background is the crockpot where the BBQ pork to shred is cooking. The stuffed animal is Raffles from Singapore. The banner on the wall says "HAPPY TURBOFIRE WIN" because Joe made it for me when I finished my workout program before we went on the vacation. My hands are like that because I'm showing you that I painted 8 of my fingernails yellow, and 2 of them pink, because I am so hip and cool and snazzy and impressed with myself. We aren't going to any festivities. I did want to climb out of the window in the elevator engine room onto the roof of our apartment building to look for fireworks later, but I think we might just skip that.

This is fruit salad:

This is the puppy we're babysitting - whose mom will be happy to see her in this picture - sitting next to the sock she's been dragging around, and the puzzle we started last night which would have been on the floor normally but is instead taking up our table so the puppy doesn't eat it:

This is inside our freezer:

That's a bag of vegetable waste to be recycled, which is in there to keep fruit flies away. As for the ice cream, I took a picture of it so I could show you which ice cream to never buy. It's got Chips Ahoy cookies in it. That sounds great in theory but doesn't work in ice cream. They've turned powdery and disgusting. We'll have eaten all of it by tomorrow evening.

I hope you noticed I'm wearing red white & blue. I miss you, Joe's mom and dad, and I also miss my mom and dad, and Robby and Katie, and my grandparents, and my cousins, and my aunts and uncles. So: I love you all, I'll see you in like ten months, and don't buy Breyers BLASTS! Chips Ahoy! ice cream!