Ex-pat Fourth of July

How to celebrate the fourth of July while living in a foreign county? Well, we were given the day off from school for starters. Then we found out that the American Embassy holds a 4th of July party for all Americans in CR. Admission? A US passport and $4. Actually, it turns out the Embassy doesn't hold it, they used to until it got too big. So now there is a committee that plans it, but the Ambassador gave the speech. It was so much bigger than we expected. Our $4 got us unlimited food, drinks, and entertainment. They had bagels (first ones we'd had in 6 months) coffee, hot dogs, drinks, TCBY yogurt, moon bounce for the kids, face painting, tatoos, sack races, water balloon toss.......So very American!!!!