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Fourth of July


This year we celebrated the Fourth of July with a friend who has only been an American for a year. Yes, that is right we celebrated it with Toby and the gang in Sanger. Luckily the hubby's work closed up shop rather early so we left quite late on Friday night. It's always nice to be able to get to your destination and then sleep in the next day. Toby joined us the next morning. First task was for the three of us to go shopping with Rosemary, hubby's mom. We had to go to two places to pick out enough food to feed the masses!! hehehe Yep, we needed to get a ton of grub for the numerous people who stop by the Rusca's. It's quite a few people if you stop and think about it. After the shopping was done it was time to get our swim and sun on! But not before we made margaritas! Toby, a non-alcoholic made the drinks and darn it he does a darn fine job for someone who doesn't taste test what he makes. That is okay, I tasted the whole pitcher for him! After trying the first batch plain we discovered that margaritas are made even better with fresh strawberries from Gilroy (which Toby had stopped to get). Anyhoo, we spent a lot of time over the 4th in the pool. Maybe even more time eating and drinking! We had an explosion of meat. With steak one night, burgers the next and of course, who can go to Sanger without stopping at Chuck Wagon? I hadn't eaten so much beef in a concentration of 3 days! When it came to fireworks we not only saw fireworks from the Rusca's backyard on July 3rd but on the 4th Adam and his family came over and we had a mini fireworks show for the kiddies. Overall, it was another fun weekend in Sanger. We left with a box of peaches and I have been eating peaches ever since! Thanks Sanger and Toby for a good time!

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