This year for the 4th of July, we celebrated with the American Society at the City Hotel (on the 2nd--as it was a Saturday)! It was rented out and decorated with every random American thing you can imagine...lots of Las Vegas stuff, a random statue of liberty, sports teams paraphernalia etc... All the American abroad clubs had booths. There was one for the US soldiers; each person would write on a post card a message of appreciation and then they would mail it to an injured soldier. The democrats abroad had their usual cut-outs of Obama everywhere--there are no republicans abroad :-)
Upstairs there were games and coloring activities for the kids. There was also a guy dressed up as Uncle Sam, who would give the kids candy! The club had classic US movies playing all over the hotel--first it was Top Gun, then Independence Day etc... I won $150.00 worth of beer for winning part 1 in the trivia contest!! There were fire works in Darling Harbour at 8:00 which we didn't stay for as the hotel turned up the heat around 7:00 and families with kids were invited to leave....the party started at 4:00. We went with another family who was happy to take the beer--apparently it was an American beer company so everyone was really excited.
The next day we flew to Melbourne for the winter holiday break (2 weeks). When Monday rolled around we celebrated again with our Melbourne friends from Montana (Candace and Wes Anderson). They had us over for dinner and Candace even bought a gift for each kid! The kids were pretty excited, and we got to wear our American t-shirts all over again!! So proud to be an American! Happy 4th everyone!
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