Being ambassador comes with some nice perks

Living here, for example:

We went to a belated 4th of July party for the embassy employees today, and it was really nice. Classy, but not so much that kids weren't having fun running wild. The ambassador's residence is gorgeous of course, and there was a big lawn set up for snacking and playing.

And speaking of playing, these guys rocked. They're a US Air Force jazz band stationed in Germany, and they were certainly making it a lively party. We danced :)

Good ol' American pride

What else can I say... it was a lovely afternoon, plus Andrew didn't go back to work after so I got him home with me for an early weekend! That's always awesome.

Also, Andrew has a very nice new suit that we got for so cheap it's ridiculous.
Well, that's about it for today, and we send you greetings from a bit of American soil abroad :)

Maybe one of the reasons I love the U.S.

"[American history] is the most romantic of all histories. It began in myth and has developed through centuries of fairy stories. Whatever the time is in America it is always, at every moment, the mad and wayward hour when the prince is finding the little foot that alone fits into the slipper of glass. It is a little hard to know what romantic means to those who use the word umbrageously. But if the mad, impossible voyage of Columbus or Cartier or La Salle or Coronado or John Ledyard is not romantic, if the stars did not dance in the sky when our Constitutional Convention met, if Atlantis has any landscape stranger or the other side of the moon any lights or colours or shapes more unearthly than the customary homespun of Lincoln and the morning coat of Jackson, well, I don't know what romance is.

Ours is a story mad with the impossible, it is by chaos out of dream and it has continued as dream down to the last headlines you read in a newspaper. And of our dream there are two things above all others to be said, that only madmen could have dreamed them or would have dared to -- and that we have shown a considerable faculty for making them come true."


Sorry for stealing this! source