Fourth of July Weekend

There were so many great things about this weekend and one bad thing:

The fact that my debit card decided to stop working on Saturday. And my credit card. and that I was left with 5 dollars. In a foreign country. By myself.

Let´s just say, I freaked out a little. Luckily, my parents are angels, and called the credit card company Monday to get it fixed. And I have a new debit card on the way. PHEW. But let me tell you, I was really worried those two and a half days that I did not have any money.

Anyway, Friday and Saturday night I slept over at Nelida´s house. It was so fun. Friday was her graduation from highschool, so she and all of her classmates stormed the streets dancing. It was SO cool. The had the drums going and the graduating class paraded through the streets for about a mile, blocking all traffic. They were all dancing and yelling. Her family and I went to Fun D´Mar for pizza and then got ice cream. Then we headed back to her house, and talked and slept. Saturday was filled with talking, lot´s of eating, lot´s of walking, reading, and music listening--and more eating. Oh and some worrying because that was the day my card stopped working. Nelida and her mom were so sweet to me though, they made me feel a lot better. Her mom is HILARIOUS.

Sunday, we went to church. They are in a different branch, so it was cool to see another branch in action. (PS I got to play the piano for sacrament. I´ve never done that before!). THEN I went to the Goff´s house to celebrate the 4th of July. We had cheeseburgers, potato salad, fruit salad, chips, and corn. AMERICAN FOOD. Wooo hoo! Then we had icecream and cake :) oh man, it was so good. Americans easily have the best food, recipes, etc. Choir was cancelled at the church (well it wasnt actually cancelled--no one came) so the Goffs and I went to the city square and listened to the band play :)

Monday was the independence day of Cape Verde! So all the stores were closed and everyone had of work. James, Karina, and I spent the whoooole day at the beach :)
all in all, a pretty dang good weekend (minus the money scare).