MONDAY – 4^th of JULY!   Hey everybody, happy Independence Day!  You know, they have a 4^th of July over here in China too.  Folks, we got up this morning determined to show our TRUE American spirit on this historic day.  We planned out a route on the Beijing subway system that required four line changes and over two hours, but nothing is too much for us on the 4^th of July.  Our destination – The United States Embassy!

So here’s the deal.  We’d heard that the embassy holds a big barbecue for all the Americans here in Beijing every year to celebrate Independence Day.  Well, that must have been before Bill Clinton’s dacron pantsuit wearing wife took control of the State Department.  The barbecue has been cut due to budgetary reasons so the government can afford to pay for universal healthcare.  While we ride out American Independence Day here in China without hot dogs and watermelon, we hope all you fat mall clerks in Omaha enjoy your government subsidized colonoscopies!  But we’re not bitter.

Oh!  Guess what?  When we tried to get into the embassy – OUR EMBASSY! – we were stopped not by U.S. Marines, but by Chinese police!  Apparently the Marines had the day off because it’s the 4^th of July.  So, if you want to attack a U.S. Embassy, do it on a holiday, there are no Marines around.  Anyway, we told the guards that we had information about spying and secret missile bases and nuclear weapons, so in return they told us a good place to get fried octopus and donkey milk cheese really cheap – it was an even information exchange.  In the end, we left and did what every American does on the 4^th of July – WE WENT SHOPPING!

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Commie guard wouldn't let us into OUR EMBASSY!           Kevin finally meeting with American Ambassador

                                                       
                                                  4th of July shopping!  We're gonna buy a mattress!