This year we changed things up a little and went to New York City for the Lunar New Year Firecracker Ceremony. This was last weekend, February 10th, and held at Sara Roosevelt Park in Chinatown. The festivities were to start at 11, so we kicked out a space in the snow along the railing. Winter Storm Nemo dropped about 8 inches of snow on the city just a day earlier. At 11 the dignitaries started their speeches. It must be election year for city council, because all of them had something to say. Finally at about 12:15 the firecrackers were lit. They advertised 600,000 firecrackers but only about half a million went off. It was loud, it was smokey and charred pieces of confetti rained all around you. At the end we bailed out of our spot to find the people stacked 10 or 12 deep behind us. It was cool and different but I think I'll go back to the parade next year.
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