Fireworks!

Today was the grand opening (finally - it's been delayed for over a month now) of the big ferris wheel thingie they've been building outside our apartment since we arrived here in January. It is the single most interesting thing, by a long shot, that our 15th floor flat overlooks. We face the opposite direction of the city; this new attraction is the only saving grace in a sprawl of industrial wasteland to the north of our building. But, tonight was a special night. For opening night, they put on a fireworks show for which we unknowingly had the best seats in the house. We looked directly down onto the fireworks area - perhaps the first time that I have witness an unobstructed fireworks display. Pretty sweet.

We immediately whipped out the camera and frantically assembled the tripod on our balcony, foregoing the actual enjoyment of the show so that we could document it for ourselves to not-enjoy-quite-as-much later. We have a picture problem, we know. Some of the shots turned out quite good I thought, though it was completely random deciding which exposure length to use since you don't know what fireworks are coming.

In other news we found an excellent Indian restaurant that is almost exactly a one mile walk from our house - which was a distance well worth traversing for the fine cuisine. It has inspired us to look into traveling to India again - yeay! As for actual and realistic upcoming travels, we leave for Tasmania on Thursday (Christmas Day) and spend 10 days scrambling around the entire island in a rental car. Even though planning for this trip was a huge pain - everyone apparently goes to Tasmania for Christmas and they take all the rental cars and hotels before I think to book them - it should be a really fun trip.