We just spent the weekend visiting our friends Sara and Tim out in El Paso, Texas to celebrate the birth of our nation! We had a great time, mostly sitting by/in the pool and enjoying the cool(er) temperatures (I'll take 90 degrees over 110 any day!). The dogs especially loved it.
We spent the morning of the 4th going to a fun farmer's market, picking up some fresh tortillas on the way home, doing some yoga, and filling up on BBQ vegetables and Mexican styled pulled-beef and a bunch of Corona's. It was nice just catching up with Sara and Tim. In addition to bing just good friends, they are both professors at UTEP and have been very helpful in preparing me for my first academic year coming up.
The fireworks were a truly cool and unique experience. The city of El Paso has a symphony that plays in its national park area down by the US/Mexico border in the summer. They were quite good, and we sat out on the lawn listening to them while a fantastic fireworks show lit up the sky. It was sort of strange being basically the only group of blonde people in the crowd, but we drank some margaritas and fit in quickly. :) The strange thing was sitting around a few thousand Mexican-Americans all decked out in red, white and blue, listening to John Philip Sousa while a giant Mexican flag waved just a few hundred feet away in Juarez. It certainly is a hybridized world!
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