Seriously. They are not messing around here. I thought I would bring in the new year with the same old tradition I have used since Mason was born, going to bed at 11:00. However, I was in for quite a surprise when I almost had a heart attack from the noise outside. Apparently, everyone in the whole city buys fireworks and shoots them off. It was crazy. It sounded like we were in the middle of a war zone. I jumped out of bed to look outside, and people were out in the streets everywhere setting off fireworks. It was really not even safe to be outside. One of my friends said she saw people pile up a ton of fireworks, and then set a bon fire on top of them.
The picture above was taken by Efe's co-worker from his downtown apartment. I wish I could take credit for it, but I really stole it from him (thanks, Roger). You can see from the picture that there are fireworks going off from a ton of different locations. Crazy dutchies.
