I have really been enjoying this holiday! Not only is the city beautiful with all the lights and decorations they put up, but stores are empty. Normally I have to mentally prepare myself to walk into the IKEA here. For some reason parents like to take their children there to take pictures of them in all the little rooms. It gets hectic. We went on Wednesday though and it was practically abandoned. We went to the grocery store that night and it was the same. Usually its a battle to push your cart through the crowds of people picking over meat or vegetables, but during Chinese New Year everyone is home with their families.
The fireworks have been pretty crazy for the past few days. I don't think we could count 15 seconds in between them for all of Wednesday night. They were going off all around us. Being up on the 29th floor gave us a pretty good view to enjoy the show. Some of them would explode below us, but the big ones would blow up right in front of our window. A little scary, but really awesome! They take their fireworks seriously here.
We went for a walk last night to Xinghai Square, right by our house. Its a huge park where they had put up lots of lights and where people had gathered to set off their fireworks. Tonight is the big firework show put on by the city at Xinghai Square, and we are having a little party with some friends at our house then walking over to watch them. Apparently its a big deal. On the news two days ago we saw a story on all the work that has gone into preparing for this show. They have spent tons of money on it and have been setting up for days.
One of the trees in the park up close. In addition to putting up lights on thousands of trees, they also attached fake leaves!
Year of the Rabbit
The whole square is about 4km around. Thats a lot of trees and lights!
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