Happy Birthday USA!

July 4th--Our big event for the day was going to the 4th of July celebration on the Patch Barracks Military base here in Stuttgart, Germany. We all loaded up in two separate cars and headed onto base. The line was a little long to sign us in, but once inside, there was plenty of parking and not just a huge crowd. The kids enjoyed going down slides, bouncing in the bounce house, running around, eating and getting their face painted. There were so many fun activities and it was all free. We had good ole American food of hot dogs, hamburgers, french fries, and corn on the cob. The fireworks were supposed to start at 10:30 (it doesn't get dark until then) so we were all anxiously awaiting them, but at 11:00 there were still no fireworks. So, we decided to start walking toward the car and watch the fireworks from there. Once we started walking though, the fireworks started. We all stopped and found a place to watch them from. We really enjoyed them. Austin was really funny though because he liked some of the fireworks and then others he would say "I don't 'yike' those fireworks." It was about midnight before getting back home.