Marine Day

July 20th was a national holiday (Marine Day) so I had three days off work in a row. Huzzah! There was a pretty spectacular fireworks display down at the Nagoya port. All of my students told me they weren't going because it would be really crowded. They weren't wrong. Some friends and I went and even though it looked as if it would start raining again at any second, there were thousands of people down by the water.



The show started around 7:30 and lasted a good hour. The fireworks were pretty great, as was the crowd reaction. They don't literally "ooo" and "ahh", but it's pretty darn close. I must admit I got a little carried with the fireworks setting I recently discovered was on my camera. I'd never tried it out before, and some of them came out pretty well.


We found a place sort of behind a tree (which you can make out in the pictures) so by the end my pictures started looking more like forest fires. Especially with how smokey the finale was. They were pretty spectacular. It seems like in the summer here someone is setting off fireworks practically every weekend.

Work is going pretty well, summer vacation is just around the corner. Hurray!