Asakusa Hanabi

Masuk bulan Juli-Agustus, jepang mulai rame dengan suara dar-der-dor kembang api alias hanabi. Since this is our last summer in Japan, we decide to see as many hanabi as possible. The first one that we wanted to see was the one in kita-senju, near tuti-didin's house, on july 28. Alas, 2 days before the d-date, Izza sakit panas, sampai 40 derajat pula. We were afraid that it's something serious, so we cancelled the plan. It turned out that she was growing teeth, and when the teeth appeared, the fever disappeared. And she also can stand now, starting on july 24, even though she's still a bit unsteady and need to hold on to something to support herself.



I got information from TV and internet that there would be a huge hanabi in Asakusa on Saturday, July 30. Ahaaa.... that's what we're looking for, now that Izza's healthy again. So, on that saturday, we went to tokyo by train (actually, we wanted to go by bus but there was no longer a saturday bus service, starting on that very day. Just our luck!). It was my first trip to Asakusa and it was very very crowded. Not to mention the heat! We didn't spend much time at the temple because of those reasons, so we went to the riverside park and waited for the hanabi to start.

Luckyly, we got a quite nice place in a stadium. Unfortunately, our sitting place was in front of the alley where people just didn't stop mill around. More or less, we enjoyed the show. And these are the pictures that I managed to take (some of the pictures are not very clear due to the smoke. It turned out that we were facing the wind so the smoke and even bits of hanabi residue drifted towards us).








Beautiful, aren't they? Oooh, I can't wait to watch the next ones. Altough I'm not sure Reyhan agrees with the rest of us (he absolutely refused to see or even take his hands off his ears the whole time we were watching the show, while his sister happyly watch it)