New Year's Eve is the firework holiday of the year in Norway. It's the only day they are allowed to do fireworks, and boy do they do fireworks. We started hearing them as soon as it got dark around 5:00pm and it didn't stop until 1 or 2 in the morning.
Our friends invited us over to their house with one other couple (plus the missionaries for dinner) to have dinner, play games, and eat snacks. We put Lily to sleep there (kind of, she kept waking up scared from all the noise of the fireworks) and then Carrie stayed at her house with the sleeping children while the rest of us went out to see fireworks. I should have taken pictures of our group, but oh well.
Here we are waiting for fireworks to start. (Don't you love the big Russian coat I'm wearing?? Ha ha! With the all the layers there was no way my coat was going to zip up over my belly, so my friend gave me this one to borrow). Sorry for the hazy picture...there really was that much smoke from everyone lighting fireworks.
This year they timed to start the fireworks at the same time from 6 or 7 different locations all over the Stavanger area. So you could look around in any direction and see firework shows. It was pretty cool. We were so close to the fireworks on our hill that everyone just stood and looked up to see them. It was raining so we didn't get too many pictures.
This picture gives you a little better idea of how close we were to the fireworks. That person at the bottom of the picture was standing just in front of us.
We are grateful for the friends we have made here and it was the perfect night to ring in 2015.
1 comment:
Love the coat!!
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