It also made another interesting fireworks-watching experience. We heard thunder shortly after arriving… and then the rain came pouring down. Everyone stood there not knowing exactly what to do next because no one wanted to give up the spot they had saved for 4 hours! Good thing the rain stopped after half an hour… or else it would’ve been a rather disappointing night.

I had to say, if the last show was included as a fourth competing country, it would’ve been quite a hard choice between Canada and Spain, who was the winner. The pace was a lot quicker than Mexico, and there were little “down-time” as they kept the show interesting throughout. I loved their use of colours and interesting fireworks (like the shooting stars, and the ones that crossed each other). Towards the end, they literally blew up the sky, where there were thousands of fragments of glittering shells, capping an epic ending.

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Unfortunately, to my disappointment, I thought the show wasn’t great at all (although in the newspaper it said that it had good reviews…). There were too many pauses, and some sections lacked colour and style. What’s worse, there were some parts where the fireworks were not synced together, having three shells explode first, then subsequently having another two explode (which made the fireworks looked a bit lopsided). My “artistic techniques” didn’t really quite work out the way I wanted to this time, but hey, that’s why it’s an experiment right? :-)

China Saturday!

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Yesterday’s shows was themed “Hell & Heaven”, and it included quite a few familiar music. After the show, my thought was “I haven’t seen anything quite like it at English Bay.” Their fireworks were choreographed in sync with their up and down music beautifully, and the way they used the majority of the sky, was pretty rare. I remember being wow’ed and getting the goosebumps a couple of times during the performance, especially towards the end when they used so many colours without overdoing it. There’s a pretty good YouTube video showing the last few minutes. I hope Mexico has something up their sleeves next Wednesday!

And I realized that there’s nothing quite like the experience than in English Bay – despite the growing crowd every year!

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