Chinese New Years Eve.

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Year of the Dragon. 2012
The Chinese are crazy about fire crackers and fire works.
We where warned........................
"Get out of China if You can for the New Year Festivities."
We thought.... "How bad could they possibly be?"
WOW.... THEY ARE CRAZY......
The more noise the better.


Fire crackers..... very noisy but not very pretty.
Fire works.... Still very noisy but very, very, very prettyThey were everywhere... The fun started around 5pm.
The tradition was to set off fire crackers before dinner.
To scare off any bad spirits and it scares the begeebers out of you.

Then after dinner another round of fire crackers are lit.....
THEN the Pretty ones come out........

They are really easy to buy..... At the local deli type store....
We bought a few. We rode there on our bikes all 4 of us.
As we where buying them a police man came out of the store.
I felt like a criminal. Quick, quick lets go.... or we will get into trouble...

He didn't care.... actually he bought some too.
It felt so wrong..... but it was worth it.... they where amazing.

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Photos

Fire works 2012
The noise was amazing.

Serena and Cloe with sparklers
Yes even the kids get into the action