Fourth of July
July 4, 2008Last year we lost the fourth of July. What do I mean by lost? We literally lost it. We left LA July 3rd, crossed the international date line, and arrived in Fiji on July 5th. The international date line happens to cross over Taveuni, a northeast island in Fiji that we visited at the end of our trip. The line only crosses land in 4 places on Earth so on Taveuni you can have one foot in yesterday and one foot in today. To reduce confusion though eastern Taveuni and the islands east of it are treated as if they were on the other side of the date line.
At the first resort we stayed at we were talking about out trip here and how we lost the 4th of July and a young British girl asked us, “But what’s the significance of the 4th of July?”
“Um, it was the day we declared our independence from your country…” I carefuly explained.
“Oh, oh yeah.”
Then we had a good laugh and explained exactly how American’s celebrate the 4th of July because she had no idea.
The British girl we met.
