Festivity!
Last night, we went to see the Chinese fireworks, which was quite memorable, despite this dull sentence. Crowds teeming through the streets, of course. The camera was still at school, unfortunately; it'd've been nice to get some shots of the crowds and the fireworks. gragathaz suggested we try to walk along the beach, but I diverted us up Davie so we could try to get some bubble tea at the new place that just recently opened. Luckily for us, prudent for them, they were still open at that hour. We just kept walking down Davie. Down the middle of the street! It was fun to walk along the yellow line, which was raised a bit. Once, a safety vehicle of some kind drove through, and didn't honk. On the way back, we all flowed the other way, and going uphill I could see the swarm ahead of us in the street. I guess I could, too, going downhill before, but it was slightly less impressive (perhaps because the crowd was unmoving at the end?). We arrived just in time, too. The first firework went off as we were about five or ten feet from where we ended up. We ended up just at the end of Davie, as it turns before it hits the beach.
Now, I'd been hoping that we'd see something fairly interesting and unusual. I tend to be bored by fireworks, most of the time. China's had time to update the medium, afterall. It started out slow, though; I was disappointed by the usual spheres and stemmy willow-fading things. Later, though, it got spiffier: curly spiral low up-shooters, multicoloured flowers (planar, not spherical), and smiley-faces. It was harder to see the lower ones, because of the people in the way. The speed of sound is fun! (I liked matching the pops to the previous flashes.) At the finale, I had to plug my ears, it was so loud; then, right when I unplugged them, some girl hooted "woo" right behind me.
Afterward we went home, and ate homemade pizza, and watched the third episode of "Reign of Terror (wherein gragathaz noticed/learned that the French bandied "citizen" about like "comrade"). The Bread Bible's recipe for pizza dough makes a small amount of extremely thin crust, just right for not having any leftover pizza. I think I'll want to try a one-and-a-half batch, so the crust can be less thin, next time. Maybe I forgot to mention that we noticed when my brother-in-law was here, that the pizza stone had split down the middle (probably due to ice thrown on the poor thing during bread-making). We baked it on the Silpat.
Now, I'd been hoping that we'd see something fairly interesting and unusual. I tend to be bored by fireworks, most of the time. China's had time to update the medium, afterall. It started out slow, though; I was disappointed by the usual spheres and stemmy willow-fading things. Later, though, it got spiffier: curly spiral low up-shooters, multicoloured flowers (planar, not spherical), and smiley-faces. It was harder to see the lower ones, because of the people in the way. The speed of sound is fun! (I liked matching the pops to the previous flashes.) At the finale, I had to plug my ears, it was so loud; then, right when I unplugged them, some girl hooted "woo" right behind me.
Afterward we went home, and ate homemade pizza, and watched the third episode of "Reign of Terror (wherein gragathaz noticed/learned that the French bandied "citizen" about like "comrade"). The Bread Bible's recipe for pizza dough makes a small amount of extremely thin crust, just right for not having any leftover pizza. I think I'll want to try a one-and-a-half batch, so the crust can be less thin, next time. Maybe I forgot to mention that we noticed when my brother-in-law was here, that the pizza stone had split down the middle (probably due to ice thrown on the poor thing during bread-making). We baked it on the Silpat.