Recap: 18th 4th of July

Sorry, sorry, no I haven't died or had an accident yesterday.

Here is my summary of yesterday's events:

Yesterday was Lusine's birthday and we (Kate, Soniya, Christine and I) met at Lucy's place and her family drove us to this park where we stayed (i.e. goofed around) from ten-ish in the morning to five thirty-ish in the afternoon. Kateryna met us at the park. As for what we did, let's see now...

We walked, wandered, climbed (just Kate, though) around. Played frisbee (sp?), badminton, volley ball (skipped, I have no skills with it of whatsoever and thought I should avoid flying round objects), got mud on shoes and grass-stain on our clothes. Squirmed around on the air mattress and, in bursts of sugar (or sleep deprivation in the case of Kate)induced insanity, sang random things ranging for the appropriately patriotic "America the Beautiful", the national anthem, the Preamble to the unrelated Mary-Sue song, Disney songs, and the Arrogant Worms' songs one of which featured the burning down of the white house. It was...interesting, let's say. Had food...bread, waffles, barbecue, watermelon, cake. Watched bird eat Soniya's left over cake. Watched Lucy's cousin trying to "chop" down a tree (very cute). Chatted and acted weird some more. I stayed late at Lucy's place to watch the fireworks (which was, by the way, very awesome) and it was very strange to be there after six PM. Was introduced to DeviantArt.

Fun day. Thanks Lucy! Thanks everyone!

Oh yes, China's national anthemn...here's a translation of sorts:

Arise, all those refusing slavery,
let us, with our flesh and blood, fuse the next Great Wall.
The People's Republic of China has arrived at a perilous time
where everyone is forced to yield (forth) their last cry.
Arise! Arise! Arise!
We, as many as one,
against the enemy's fires
March forward.
Against the enemy's fires
March forward, march forward, march!

Photo will be on line by noon. Promise.

[edit 10 56:]
Have found the old pictures from when we went to watch Star Wars III and realized that because I'd left the focus in the wrong setting so all the pictures from that day are incredibly blurry--so much so that I have to scale them down to 150x200 pixel so you can tell what they are (that's why they looked okay to me in my LCD display). SO SORRY ABOUT THAT!

On a different note--something cool happened by coincidence. Lucy, on your 18th birthday...go and see which picture the 18th one turned out to be. :-) I was cracking up about it...what are the chances....

[edit 11 34:]
Just remembered--if you want a specific picture in all of it's 1600x1200 pixel glory (FYI I scale my pictures down to 400x300 so my internet won't die on me,) ask me because I may have it. (Planning to do some prints at Longs Drugs soon. Some day.)