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I want fireworks!
12.28.03 (9:03 am)
For me, a New Year’s Eve without fireworks is an incomplete one. I know that most Americans save them for 4th of July and think that any outdoor holiday in the midst of winter is a stupid invention, but I happen to like it. I like going outside at midnight to say Happy New Year to the neighbors while fireworks are blasting away in the background instead of paying $100 to do essentially the same thing in some fancy club or restaurant, but then with only so much as a firecracker.

The city of Washington doesn’t do anything for New Year’s Eve. Jacco and I once, about 8 years ago when he did an internship here, watched the New York's Times Square festivities on television and then decided to go see what was going on at the Mall. Nothing. I’ve never seen so little people at the monuments… Another year we went to Baltimore, which does have fireworks in the inner harbor, but other than a lonely Starbucks nothing is open to the public really so you’re walking around in the cold all night. Then there is Alexandria that seems to have a lot of festivities. I am just not sure yet what I want… Fireworks and cold feet or firecrackers and champagne?
 


posted by: newbie
post date: 12.29.03 (3:33 am)

Nou hier hebben ze niet de moeite genomen om te wachten tot oud en nieuw met vuurwerk. tweede kerstdag 's avonds 10 over tien. eer enorme chinese rol wordt aangestoken midden op straat. lawaai! geweldig wel lekker veel aandacht voor je vuurwerk.

veel plezier met de jaarwisseling!





posted by: newbie
post date: 12.29.03 (5:14 am)

ik hou helemaal niet van vuurwerk, siervuurwerk allah, maar al dat geknal enzo, mij niet gezien, laat staan dat ik er geld aan uit geef. dit jaar maar hoog en droog en veilig vanaf ons dakterras kijken. Wel altijd lachen dat er de volgende dag in de straat hele discussies zijn wie de troep op moet ruimen, als het dan ook nog gesneeuwt of geregend heeft is het helemaal bagger.


 
 
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