The actual 4th of July / Beyonce's husband

Blogger is not letting me rotate my photos.

I have tried rotating these before uploading

and they are right-side up,

yet when I upload them,

they are sideways.

This happens on Blogger a lot

and it's aggravating.

So if you want to tilt your head

and imagine what these photos should look like,

then be my guest.

Pierce and I went to London

on the actual 4th of July.

We took a bus to the U-bahn,

an U-bahn to the train station,

a train to Salzburg,

a bus to the Salzburg airport,

a plane to London,

a Stansead Express train to the city,

the Tube to the hostel

and walked to Hyde Park.

There, we saw Jay-Z,

live.

This seems fitting for the 4th of July,

as I can think of very few entertainers

who love America (or at least Brooklyn) more than Jay-Z.

However, it was a little odd

experiencing this with the British,

since we (Jay-Z, me, Pierce)

were celebrating our independance from them,

which occurred precisely 234 years ago.

Also, the lyrics "Long live the World Trade"

(of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' Empire State of Mind)

seemed to make much less of an impact on the British,

we noticed,

whereas it gave me chills from head to toe.

But I loved the concert itself,

and Beyonce was there.

The end.