Monday, September 17, 2007

Fireworks

Last Friday we went to Gera (50 km from Jena) to see some Fireworks. Germany was hosting a Firework competition there. We're not sure if there were more than two participants but we were there to see the Chinese display. The German display was the next night. The pictures I took don't show it but it was pretty impressive and went on for quite a while.





Julia especially like the ones in the picture above.
These many roman candles made a cool weaving pattern of smoke through the sky that was illuminated by the following explosions.

With us were another Julia (in German it's pronounced Yulia), Jans and Huilin, friends from Julia's work. The show was at 10 o'clock at the airport which was about 30mins out of town by bus. The last train back to Jena was at 11:30 so it would have been cutting close to try to get back on time. Jans and Huilin decided that they were going to try and made it. However, Julia, Julia and me decided to stay until the next train which was at 4:30 the following morning and enjoy the festivities. Soon after, we saw some fire breathers:


There were two of them. One of them looked like he had done this many times before but his apprentice look very cautious and almost nervous. You can really feel the heat coming from those flames even at a distance.

Since this took place at an airport their was a whole lot of room. There were two stages with live bands playing at either end and stalls selling beer, cocktails, food and glow-in-the-dark thingies in between. They also have these alcoholic fruit drinks kept in giant glasses as seen below:



So we eat and drank a little and stayed there as long as we could since we had to wait for the 4:30 train. There were also bonfires of mostly old furniture were stayed warm until the staff came to politely tell us that they were cleaning up.

We went back to town and tried to find a bar that was still open. After asking many people and going to many bars we finally found one that was open until 4. Then we went back to the train station, waited some more and I fell asleep.

1 comment:

Brandy said...

That sounds like a very awesome night!! They should open airports up for that kind of fun here, great idea and those fruity drinks look amazing!