We celebrated New Year's Dutch-style once again. The Dutch love their fireworks. Pretty much anything that's illegal in the U.S. is legal here. So, everyone shoots off their own fireworks and you get quite a show. We celebrated by watching everyone else set off their fireworks works from our bedroom window. We weren't going to be able to sleep through it, so we figured we might as well get up. Audrey and Rachel were more than happy to sleep through all the fireworks. Although at midnight we decided to wake Rachel up and let her watch the show. She enjoyed it and went back to sleep after 30 minutes of watching the fireworks. Things seemed to quiet down around 1 AM. Fireworks were actually going off all day yesterday. The girls both took a 2-hour nap at the same time, but could I get any shut eye? No, it was too noisy. Kind of frustrating in the middle of the day. I understand once it gets dark, but it's not really worth it during the day. Fireworks are much more spectacular when it's pitch black. You can see the remnants of last night's fun all through the streets and on top of the frozen canals. Here's a video we took as we watched the fireworks from our bedroom window:
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I think I may have some Dutch people living in my neighborhood because at midnight they were lighting of "fireworks" here too!!! The scary ones - in the air!!! Crazy!! ;)
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