Ingredients for a successful 4th of July:

Booze - check

Corn on the cob, hot dog, fried chicken - check, check, check

Enthusiastic random outbursts of "Amurrica! YEAH!" - check

Fireworks on the street - check

Fireworks fired off balcony, in living room, and into sleeping friend's bedroom at 3am - CHECK.

Dangerously improper use of bottle rockets - check

Barking dogs all over Omiya - check

"Oh shit, the cops are totally gonna show up LETS BOUNCE" - check

Two white girls attempting a "getaway," one covered in soot and the other with no shoes on. - check

The look on Pat's face when he turns on the lights tomorrow and sees the damage done to his room - priceless?