Firework season begins tomorrow

JapanFreak · Post by **JapanFreak** » Sun May 31, 2009 11:22 pm

Hanabi or fireworks are huge in Japan and all during the summer different city's hold their displays that the spent all year getting ready for. Some go for hours and I'm talking what we could call the "Finale Finally" type of fireworks constantly. First show I went to here I thought we showed up late because of the numbers going off.

Tomorrow is one of my favorites. They mix fireworks with an afternoon of live music and lasers all free of course. Going to show up early, claim my spot, pick the kids up after school and enjoy.

weedy · Post by **weedy** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:22 am

i love fire works too!!! sounds like it is gunna be a blast!!

whats the big occasion???? i thought they had fire woprks year round!!! it is about firework season here in the states!!!! 4th of july right around the corner!!

JapanFreak · Post by **JapanFreak** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:44 am

No occasion, they have it every year. I mean I know there is a holiday for schools tomorrow and I'm sure that the day has a name, they have names for days up the yahoo here such as Culture Day and Senior citizen day which I guess isn't any worse than Secretary day but it's more an excuse than anything else. There will probably be anywhere around 50 firework events around Tokyo this summer. Many times you can actually up to 3 from the same spot. Women wear their summer Yukatas and men in their Jinbeis. Japanese food stands and beer everywhere. 4 months of fireworks!!

JapanFreak · Post by **JapanFreak** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:57 pm

What a day. My kids actually had the day off from school so I got them from the morning. I love when they don't have school.

My girl was supposed to show up before the fireworks started but her asshole of a boss kept her late and she showed up right as they started. I didn't realize that her phone didn't have gps so the map with gps location to where we were didn't work and she called me up asking "Where?" After 10 minutes she finally found us.
I only took a few pics during the show and my camera is crap so they didn't come out, but this might give you an idea.

this year they also had like 10 flame throwers in a line that would shoot huge bursts of fire into the air. lasers, flames, lights and fireworks computer programmed to music. Very cool.

Uncle Duke · Post by **Uncle Duke** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:52 pm

i could do better then that with a gallon of diesel and a 5 lb bag of fertilizer.

JapanFreak · Post by **JapanFreak** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:09 pm

To tell the truth I couldn't be bothered to take any pics during the show and the only one that was somewhat in focus is that one.........with no fireworks going off.

You can blame 2 kids crawling over me and a women with the world's worst sense of direction screaming into her cell, "Where? Where?"

She drives me nuts when we go somewhere new. My new used car doesn't have car-navi and she can't read maps. So she thinks she's totally off the hook but I can't read some of the roadsigns.

Uncle Duke · Post by **Uncle Duke** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:18 pm

buy her one of those GPS navigation things. i don't know shit about them. i'm a man and don't need directions.