Saturday, February 5, 2011

Spring Festival-Fireworks

For the rest of my life whenever someone talks about the Chinese New Year many images will fill my mind.  These include dumplings, lanterns, not able to get train tickets and many more, but the one that will shine the brightest is fireworks.  The country that invented them loves them and can't get enough.

Think to 4th of July, everyone is excited to go see the fireworks display in their town and have a few small things at their home with sparklers.  Now multiply this by about 100.  And add 15 or so days.  Chinese start with firecrackers early in the morning and continue onto aerial displays at night.  But each family does their own aerial display.  

The following is from midnight on New Years.  A 360 degree show that you can sit back and enjoy.  Just be careful that nothing comes too close to you or your house as all American safety codes are non-existent.  Needless to say, there is nothing that compares.





(as I sit here writing this 3 days later I can still hear the sound of fireworks going off all around me :) )

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