4th

We spent the 3rd beside N&L, baking red&blue dye-infused cupcakes, dripping in wet organic frosting & coconut flakes, lemon jello infused with vodka, watermelon infused with vodka. We ate chicken stir fry on the porch, with poorly made cocktails & caprese on crouton-rounds. It was a sluggish day which felt like dragging. The next morning we, with surprising vigor, esp. on anders' part, went on an early run up flagstaff mountain, where we bumped into&harassed the ultra runner, scott jurek. After, we packed up burgers & veggie burgers & wieners & the cupcakes & watermelon & jello (fail) & ahmerican flagged budweisers into a picnic basket with mason jars & striped straws. We headed over to laurey's, who lives on this beautiful property in the country, where we had a bbq, played music, drank buds on black rubber tubes while we floated in the pond, while the boys climbed trees & branches broke beneath their climbs to leap into the cotton-covered water. After hours we drove into town, climbed the hills above anders' childhood home & higher, stabbed by yuccas and other cacti, sipping on melted lemon vodka jello, until we found a rock to sit on, watching the fireworks while deer leapt beside us, scared of the screams, and the AhMeriCA!, and Viva Mexico? and CANADA RULES and THE BRUINS WON.