This is a story about setting off firecrackers in our driveway.
This is a story about a kid who did not like setting off firecrackers in our driveway.
This is a story about the kid's sister, who did like the firecrackers, especially the long sparklers, which didn't burn her finger like the short ones did.
This is a story about things you should never let your kids do, even on holidays.
See what I mean?
Actually, this part of the story is not about fireworks, but about three kids who went to the Children's Discovery Center soon after the New Year began, and got to do things like learn how to use a wheelchair, and shop for groceries.
This is a story about two little girls who got their heads eaten by large sea creatures yet enjoyed the experience so much that they. . .
. . . Let it happen yet again, this time with a Hawaiian band.
But the weirdest thing that happened was that the kids started shrinking, like Alice down the rabbit hole.
And we heard them exclaim,
as they dwindled out of sight,
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
(And to all a good night.)
The end.
*** Author's postscript: The real story is that we set off a LOT of fireworks on New Year's Eve. First Uncle Soko and Aunty Marvalee took us out for a nice dinner at Willows, the same place where John and Tara had their wedding reception. Back at our house, we opened an entire box of firecrackers that Aunty Jan and Uncle Ron brought over. Daniel was alternately fascinated ("I love this!") and frightened out of his wits. Sophie had a great time until she burned herself on a sparkler, but after some drama went right back to holding sparklers again.
After blowing up our stash, we went over to our neighbor's house, where our friend was running around with a blow torch and setting off firecrackers in a large bucket of water so that the ensuing explosion sounded like a toilet flushing. After that, we went to another neighbor's house where they bought one string of 10,000 firecrackers, and two strings of 20,000 -- these were the kinds you needed a permit for. EXTREMELY LOUD. The strings of firecrackers were over 15 feet long each! Of course, each of the neighbors next to them had their own strings of thousands of firecrackers too. By the time it was done, Sophie, Daniel, and Zeke the dog had all decided to go inside to take refuge from the sounds of Armageddon. Since virtually everyone on the island was doing the same thing (blowing things up, that is, including the illegal arials - the kind you see at your local municipal fireworks display every 4th of July), the sky was pretty much obscured by smoke. We had to drive home slowly through all the haze. (Ryan: It was great!)
On New Year's day, all our Oahu family came over for a dinner of traditional Japanese New Year food (none of which I cooked), and set off still more fireworks in our driveway.
Our Discovery Center trip was a Christmas gift from Jan and Ron. Sophie's friend Paige joined us. All three children are fully restored to normal size.
But the weirdest thing that happened was that the kids started shrinking, like Alice down the rabbit hole.
And we heard them exclaim,
as they dwindled out of sight,
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
(And to all a good night.)
The end.
*** Author's postscript: The real story is that we set off a LOT of fireworks on New Year's Eve. First Uncle Soko and Aunty Marvalee took us out for a nice dinner at Willows, the same place where John and Tara had their wedding reception. Back at our house, we opened an entire box of firecrackers that Aunty Jan and Uncle Ron brought over. Daniel was alternately fascinated ("I love this!") and frightened out of his wits. Sophie had a great time until she burned herself on a sparkler, but after some drama went right back to holding sparklers again.
After blowing up our stash, we went over to our neighbor's house, where our friend was running around with a blow torch and setting off firecrackers in a large bucket of water so that the ensuing explosion sounded like a toilet flushing. After that, we went to another neighbor's house where they bought one string of 10,000 firecrackers, and two strings of 20,000 -- these were the kinds you needed a permit for. EXTREMELY LOUD. The strings of firecrackers were over 15 feet long each! Of course, each of the neighbors next to them had their own strings of thousands of firecrackers too. By the time it was done, Sophie, Daniel, and Zeke the dog had all decided to go inside to take refuge from the sounds of Armageddon. Since virtually everyone on the island was doing the same thing (blowing things up, that is, including the illegal arials - the kind you see at your local municipal fireworks display every 4th of July), the sky was pretty much obscured by smoke. We had to drive home slowly through all the haze. (Ryan: It was great!)
On New Year's day, all our Oahu family came over for a dinner of traditional Japanese New Year food (none of which I cooked), and set off still more fireworks in our driveway.
Our Discovery Center trip was a Christmas gift from Jan and Ron. Sophie's friend Paige joined us. All three children are fully restored to normal size.
2 comments:
Very Irvingesque!
Glad you had a bang of a New Year's! ^^
"string of 10,000 firecrackers, and two strings of 20,000"
One of my favorate, which will take more than 15 minutes. Are they from my country? I always feel a little sad since I can not find the firecrackers like that in New York. Kids lose a lot of funs.
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