July 4th Weekend - July 2nd

Read about this celebration through the AOL page about 3 weeks ago. We plan to go there with a bunch of people but then in the end a lot of people "pang pea ke" and just the for of us went. Me, Em, Sara and Maricel. Got a call from Sara about 3.30pm to asking about what time are we leaving. Woke up about 5 pm when we were suppose to be at Sara's place at 5.15pm. As usual....we are late again. Mari came along with us while the "b" Mr. NO life Mauricio decided to rest at home after his marathon of 40 hours of OT this week. Talk about Mr OT. Anyway we went over to Sara's about 5.45pm and went straight towards downtown. Dont feel like talking much today probably due to the fact that Emily snore the whole day I was having difficulty sleeping. When we arrive the air show about to end at about 6.40pm. Paid $5 for the parking and we walk about 10mins to the fair. After lining up in a long long line for the security check...we finally got into the fair. Its Fair St Louis and they were celebrating 25th year anniversary. Apparently Fair St Louis is the biggest 4th July celebration in the States. Maybe other states have other better things to do ...Maybe. We finally got into the fair ground....confuse after lining up so long under the hot sun....first stop....Coupon booth. No cash during the fair.In exchange for cash we had to purchase coupons to buy food and drinks. 9 coupons for 5 bucks. Soda = 4 coupons, beer= 7-8 coupons, gyros = 14 coupons, small lemonade = 6 coupons, chinese food= 14 coupons and of course turkey legs = 10 coupons. There we loads and loads of people sitting all over the place under the Arch. After the food...we walk up the towards the Arch and to our suprise ....there were even more, my guess would be about 10k people gathered in front of the main stage. It was Black Eye Pea concert. Its free. The band just came in the morning form Philledalphia for the Live 8 concert. The gave a breath taking performance. Emily was feeling well. While she went and relief herself in the portable toilet me sara and maricel party on. During the break we decide to sit with Emily at the Arch stairs as she want there to rest after she relief herself. We sat there watch the big screen showing live on what is on the main stages. After the concert, the organiser took down the 2 big screen in a flash to prepare for the fire works show. The whole fire works show is sponsor by the US bank....hmmm.....i wonder what the do with the money people put in the back...ehehhehehe....burn them life fire works?...maybe. But the fireworks was awesome. It lasted about 15- 20 mins. I think its really among the best and the longest i have ever seen. It was launch from from a drag boat. It ended about 5 mins to 10 pm. After that we head towards our car with the thousand of people that was at the fair. I think it was a perfect goodbye gift to Sara for the 8 months that she was here. All of us enjoy ourself...while we send Sara home...the 3 of us head towards MasterCard to start work at 11.30pm.

Breathtaking concert with thousands of people with a colourful and awesome fireworks for the 4th july weekend.....