Fireworks

So I expected to hear a lot of noise pollution from the car horn. There's some, don't get me wrong and I will definitely describe this soon, but nothing compared to the firework. The Chinese LOVE their fireworks - as they should - they developed this technology back during the Tang dynasty (between 589-907AD). The Chinese used this technology to blow things up and make pretty designs in the sky, the Mongolians took this same technology (aka: gunpowder) and used it to conquer the Chinese! Hmmm. So 1500 years later, the Chinese still love their fireworks. They go off every day, literally every day. They go off in the morning, mid-day and especially at night. When we first arrived, we though they were doing demolition at 7 in the morning, turns out, people are just really excited to set off their fireworks. They set them off in the courtyard of our apartment complex, at the hotel across the street and then off in the distance. We're not sure why they set them off - maybe because it's 10am on a Thursday or lunch time "yay fireworks" - because you can see them so well when it's light outside?!?! Um are you confused yet, because we are. We've been able to determine why fireworks went off on 2 occasions out of the hundreds we've heard. One was because a nightclub was opening just down the street another was because of a conference at a hotel. The thing we find the most puzzling is that fireworks are expensive, so why are they being shot off morning, noon and night? Aaron is so frustrated with them at this point. It drives him nuts. I don't particularly mind them. So just another one of the weird quirks of China!