Fireworks

We went to the International Fireworks Festival last night at the La Ronde theme park, where you can buy tickets to sit right along the water's edge and have the display go off just a few hundred feet in front of you. We try to go at least four or five times every summer.

Last night however was one of the best experiences I have ever had. Hong Kong was the country competing, and the few thousand of us that had already bought our tickets were sitting through torrential rain - we were soaked in a matter of seconds. But wow, what a show.

Not only did they put on the best performance of the competition so far, but huge cracks of lightning kept ripping across the sky. First it was just off to the side of the magnificent painting of light the fireworks were inscribing upon the sky in front of us - then, the lightning literally started crackling across the sky directly behind the fireworks. The combination of dancing lightning and the exploding lights were incredible - like God took up the paint brush and just started flicking it at the world below.

The picture of lightning streaking through the fifteen huge red and gold fireworks exploding all at once, during a show the creators had claimed was inspired by the four elements, will be forever etched into my memory. Man vs. Nature. Amazing.