Fourth of July!!

Ahhhh the fourth of July in Moscow.....Jim read in the paper that the American Chamber of Commerce holds a 4th of July party out in this park WAY outside the city - there will be food, concerts, and of course fireworks! So a few of us thought we'd check it out.

Well there was food which you had to stand in LONG lines for and plenty of Budweiser (sold in 6 pack pounders ONLY) a white Statue of Liberty, and actually a pretty cool band. We staked out a table because Russian's love to 'save' places not only in line but also they like to 'save' tables and chairs. So after negotiating and I think our friend Jim even paid a Russian for their 'saved' chair we had a table and some chairs. We got some food and enjoyed the music.

We thought the event would be crawling with Americans or at least English speaking people....this was not the case. We also thought we'd be able to eat a good old fashioned American hot dog or hamburger - it is the 4th of July? NOPE - no American food and hardly any Americans - this is a party put together by the American Chamber of Commerce that Russisans just love to attend and that's what it was - Happy 4th of July Russia!!! TIR

Here is the Statue of Liberty

Here we are with our table.....you have NO idea what we did for this table!