Hawaii Knows How to PARTY!

We were going to let the girls stay up late, but not until midnight. Around 11, we went outside to let them do some sparklers before heading to bed.

For some reason we didn't get a good picture of Kenna and her sparkler.

The girls with Uncle Lee and Aunty Mibi. (Our next door neighbors.)
They wanted to go say hi to our neighbors before going inside to bed. We let them-on the condition that we would go right to bed, but the neighbors took the girls' side and convinced us to let them stay up to ring in the new year. And it was worth staying up for! (Brynlee had already crashed. I was amazed she slept through all the noise. She is a pretty light sleeper.)

Lee wrapped his firecrackers around a ladder. It was so crazy smokey the whole evening! We couldn't hardly see the houses across the street.



Since it gets dark here around 7, the fireworks started early and continued pretty constant until about 1 a.m., minus a half an hour or so around 9 when it began to pour.
It was a pretty amazing sight! And SO loud! I can't even imagine how many thousands of dollars were spent on lighting up the sky! (And making lots of noise!) Some people blocked off their roads in the morning for their dinner and party that night. A few people were surprised that we hadn't ever seen anything like it for New Years. "Do they not do fireworks in Idaho for New Years?" Not so much! Not many people love fireworks enough to want to light them off in negative temperatures! But we enjoyed them in shorts in Hawaii! The video doesn't really even show how noisy and fun it was.