The end of all the festivities was a 2 hour firework display on the banks for the river. Literally the whole of Niigata it seems lines each bank from about 7 o'clock and has BBQs and a few sociable drinks. That's the whole of Niiagta except Shizuka who had to work which was a bit of as waste of time as they had no customers at all during the fireworks.
So I found the rest of the gang - no mean feat amongst all the people (what did we do before mobile phones?) The fireworks were cool. They are sponsered by companies from Niigata and as the barrage is released the company name is anounced over the loud speaker - though you can't hear it over the sound of the fireworks. Unfortunately my pictures of fireworks leave a little to be desired, but they were pretty spectacular for the whole 2 hours.
Afterwards went to Immigrants cafe to see how Shizuka was doing. As part of the feastival she too was wearing a Ukata, and pretty lovely she looked too!
4 comments:
oooohh....aaaaahhhh
mate...have a look at jenelles blog..now THAT is how you take pics of fireworks
Found out last night that my camera has a special firework setting - A) should've read the manual B) D'oh!
a) youre a bloke...we simply dont read manuals... b) doh
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