On the way to Maadi for the Fourth of July celebration, we saw this beetle painted like Herbie. "Herbie goes to Cairo" maybe?

This year's celebration had a Hawaii theme.

Teri eating some cotton candy.

The American ambassador to Egypt came stood and gave a speech.

Me with a tiki statue.

Jason and Sarah, some American friends I have met during my stay in Cairo.

Jason got this great photo of me and Teri, but if you look carefully in the background you will see the reason he took the photo for me. I really wanted to get a photo of the seated woman in the head-to-toe, all black robe. Clearly she is Muslim, and an American because we all had to show our American passports to get in, but she turned more than a few cautious eyes because she was pregnant. We were all thinking, "Is that really a pregnant tummy under that robe?"