Don't Worry...

Around 3pm Standard Israeli Time, I realized that no one was making "the BBQ". I hadn't received any phone calls telling me where one was, or what time it was starting...little bizzare. well, when no one else is stepping up to the base, there's only one thing to do. So, i called a few friends, decided on a time, told people to bring things, and met them at the park around 9.
We had the usual people you'd expect at a July 4th BBQ.
Canadians who couldn't get anyone together for their day, English'ers to show they don't still bare a grudge, and Israelis who were appreciative of the fact that Americans started the decline of the British Empire, thus allowing Israel to "fall" under Jewish rule, and of course a "few" token proud AMERICANS.
And I learned a lot about bbq'ing too. Don't let English girls run the grills - they'll sabatage them! Don't buy tin 1 time use grills. Make friends with the guys who rolled their gas grill to the park before lighting your throw away grills, cuz in the end you're going to use them anyway.
Yah, that's right, there were a group of peeps who rolled a gas grill from their home to the park, a couple blocks away, to BBQ july 4th in the park. They came over to us and invited us to join them and leave our "silly fake grills". We didn't want to admit defeat immediately, so we first tried to cook on our grills. but alas, we gave in and let them cook our chicken and hotdogs for us ;)
All in all...a great time was had by most!