The month of December was insane with fireworks. I'm talking, like every single night for hours and hours. And these aren't measly little bottle rockets. These are the mega mumbo jumbo ones! Our house would shake, dogs would bark, babies would cry...you know how it goes. And it was every night. And we had a frightened boy who has a teacher who told him fireworks are dangerous, a daughter who is a light sleeper, and a one month old baby...enough said. At least once the baby is asleep, she's asleep. What a different kind of experience the month of December was for us!
For starters, the weather turns very nice. It's a bit windy, but the rain has finally stopped and it's sunny and 80 degrees every day. It really is amazing. Next there is no Santa Claus here so the malls look a little different. (Baby Jesus is the one who brings a gift for each child.) And then the fireworks are just hard to describe. We had heard that New Years Eve will be unlike anything we've ever seen, and we just weren't sure what to expect. We had a low-key New Year's Eve day watching a Duck Dynasty and Billy the Exterminator marathon on tv and playing Wii games. We had barbecue for dinner and put the baby to bed. Will and the kids went to the park to shoot fireworks with the Gault's and this freaked Jack a little too much. He was really serious about people getting hurt from fireworks and a few got a little too close to Danny. Jack was pretty upset. So we gave Jack the option to go to bed early so he wouldn't be terrified at midnight. He took us up on that offer and went to bed at 10:00.
Then, around 11:45, it started. There were huge major fireworks going off from every household as far as you could see. We have an awesome balcony where we shot off some of our own and watched the skies explode. It was indescribable! So so beautiful! Even in the background you could see fireworks going off on the mountains all around us. People were honking, cheering, yelling and happy as could be. There were even Chinese lanterns being released all over the city and it looked like something from the movie Tangled. Emma was thrilled! It lasted for about an hour and we were frantically calling people to try to give others a glimpse of the awesomeness.
It was truly a night to remember.
Happy New Year!
For starters, the weather turns very nice. It's a bit windy, but the rain has finally stopped and it's sunny and 80 degrees every day. It really is amazing. Next there is no Santa Claus here so the malls look a little different. (Baby Jesus is the one who brings a gift for each child.) And then the fireworks are just hard to describe. We had heard that New Years Eve will be unlike anything we've ever seen, and we just weren't sure what to expect. We had a low-key New Year's Eve day watching a Duck Dynasty and Billy the Exterminator marathon on tv and playing Wii games. We had barbecue for dinner and put the baby to bed. Will and the kids went to the park to shoot fireworks with the Gault's and this freaked Jack a little too much. He was really serious about people getting hurt from fireworks and a few got a little too close to Danny. Jack was pretty upset. So we gave Jack the option to go to bed early so he wouldn't be terrified at midnight. He took us up on that offer and went to bed at 10:00.
Then, around 11:45, it started. There were huge major fireworks going off from every household as far as you could see. We have an awesome balcony where we shot off some of our own and watched the skies explode. It was indescribable! So so beautiful! Even in the background you could see fireworks going off on the mountains all around us. People were honking, cheering, yelling and happy as could be. There were even Chinese lanterns being released all over the city and it looked like something from the movie Tangled. Emma was thrilled! It lasted for about an hour and we were frantically calling people to try to give others a glimpse of the awesomeness.
It was truly a night to remember.
Happy New Year!
We got to experience some of it! Christmas in CR is pretty cool!!!
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