花火　宴会　Hanabi enkai

Last day of my town's summer festival. Each town usually has its own summer festival which typically lasts for 3 days. The festival usually ends with a fireworks display on the last day. Fireworks is hanabi in Japanese. The teachers had an enkai in the park to view the fireworks display.

The ever-adorable Matsumura-sensei

3 large trays of sushi, 2 trays of mixed platter and lots of Asahi super dry beer

Eating and drinking before the fireworks show

Enjoying the fireworks

Their fireworks display is different from ours back in Singapore. Here, companies or individuals sponsor one firework or a series of fireworks, depending on how much money they are willing to spend. There is an announcement of the sponsor and a short message from the sponsor before each firework / each series of fireworks is set off. The show lasted about 1.5 hours, with about 120 series of fireworks set off in total.

Here's a short video of the fireworks that my school sponsored (no. 93) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gTzHLkybsM

Another short video of some other random fireworks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uowW6-KyzQ