HAPPY NEW YEAR
Its 2008 mnd time to wish everybody a Happy New Year. We had a great holiday season over here and are now ready to get back at it.
The crazy thing about a Dutch New Year is the fireworks. For 2-3 days a year they are legal and the Dutch have a blast with them. Our neighbors started around 9am with a keg of beer, €3,000 worth of fireworks (from small to giant by the way...they sell these crates with 96 shots of fire work in them...... 5 minutes of exploding fun) a canister of gun powder and several jerry cans of gas. Think that makes for a fun time? It was a bit crazy, dangerous and at times just a bit over the edge.....but they are professionals so we were all ok (professionals in the fact they have been doing that for 8 years running without a problem)
At midnight all of the other Dutch Crazy's set off their big ones and the sky was ablaze.
Today on my way to work the streets were litered with bottle rockets, boxes of 96 shot, firecracker paper and the like. Check out this news paper post @ http://www.nlplanet.com/almanac/topic.php?id=45
Anyway, HAPPY NEW YEAR and next year we'll take video.
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