Hanabi

Tonight I went to my first (and what will probably be my last, at least for a while) Japanese Fireworks show which was held at the Mitsuhama Matsuri.  It was a pretty amazing sight as the fireworks lasted over and hour and maintained a pretty great stream of awesomeness!  In Hawaii, the show would have easily cost over a million dollars to put on but here it just seemed usual, there were several OOOʻs and AAAʻs but aside from that Iʻm not sure that anyone seemed quite as amused as us foreigners who journeyed there together this evening.

Fireworks are a time to reflect for me.

 I think because, even though it wasnʻt so loud that we couldnʻt talk no one really wanted to aside from the random remark here and there about the size of one blast or the motion of another.  People were there with their children, with their dates, with their friends...it was simply an amazing gathering of people.

For me though, I was in my own world a good deal of the time.  Every blast reminded me how far Iʻd come in Japan and how this is my last week here.  It never ceases to amaze me what a different world it is here and these fireworks...well, see for yourself.

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