Ghetto Americana 4th of July

This year, for the 4th, I went down to my co worker's place in Ocean Beach for their annual BBQ and fireworks watching (I missed last year). There was eating and drinking and talking shit about work. It was even more fun since there were former employees at this bbq too.

We also had a blast watching Dirt and his megaphone start acosting ppl on the street. He was very good with the megaphone as he sounded like a cop on a megaphone. He gave out oral citations of walking too fast or biking too slow or having bad hair. Very funny stuff!

The actually fireworks watching was on the beach which was a couple blocks away. The beach filled with ppl and alcohol everywhere. The beach was also somewhat dark, lit only by amateur fireworks being shot all around the beach. You had to be alert to make sure you were walking in the path of someone's rocket. There were huge bonfires everywhere started by ppl, and kept going with "anything that burns." I saw someone uproot a tree and shove it into the fire! And they started these huge bonfires so they can start marshmellow fights. Basically, ppl would throw marshmellows THRU the bonfire in hopes of hitting someone on the other side with a flamming marshmellow. And then, when ppl ran out of marshmellow, they start throwing beer bottles filled with sand (?!). I have never been so scared in my life!

The fireworks were the typical flair. But I did get to see cool new smiley face fireworks. Never saw that before.

After the show, and after like an hour in traffic to try to get out the place, we ended up at this girl's place (one of the same 'net girls we met the night before) so we can end up at some bar to meet more "girls." We didn't end up going til 2 hours later, waiting for another friend. I was getting really tired (it was about midnite) and I had this horrible toothache. Anyways, we ended up at this gay bar. Woo! What a way to end the 4th! Surprisingly, there were a few girls there but not enough to keep our interest. We left soon after.

We were all dead tired. Happy 4th of July!