Happy "We Beat the British" Day!

The Laffoons and I celebrate the Fourth of July on Monday, which is just two days before Malawi's Independence Day which was on Wednesday. I'm sure people thought we got our dates mixed up and jumped the gun on partying, but whatev.


I was really excited about our celebration for two reasons:
1. We were grilling out!

 

2.  We were eating outside under the little hut thing. It has a name but I can't spell it. Phonetically its "Ron-dov-al".

We had chicken, baked beans, corn, and coleslaw. Deelish.

It was the first time we ate under the hut, which was a lot of fun. We made little paper lanterns (shout out to Tangled) which added a nice ambiance.

Then, Eric brought out some fireworks he had found at one of our grocery stores in town.

They may just look like this,...

...but they turned into this!

 

Okay, that's a lie. It really was just this:

And finally, Dessert. What else says 4th of July than dark chocolate mint brownies with mocha icing? It was a bit too sweet, so I probably won't make it again, but it was fun looking at least.

Hope you 4th of July was as fun as ours!