Richard and I attended the 4th of July celebration today at the US Embassy, and it was a great party. The security was pretty strict, as I have shown in one picture. This is a picture of something on the wall before you get into the Embassy. If you have a camera, you have to take a picture of this and show the guard the picture so he knows that what you have is actually a working camera. The Chilean Police, or Carabineros, would not let me take a picture of himself or his drug-sniffing dog. Oh, well.
We had soft drinks, pizza, chicken nuggets, coffee, cake, chocolate chip cookies, (pretty amazing, since there are no chocolate chips here) and peanut butter cookies. Very American stuff. The Ambassador spoke, there was a very moving flag-raising by the Marines, and some great speeches. I had a hard time taking pictures because of the large number of people taller than myself! Which, come to think of it, is every US citizen over the age to 12.
It was a very nice day, and one we will remember. I hope all of you, our friends and family, had a great 4th!
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