Diwali

Diwali (pronounced Da-Volley) is the "Festival of Lights". This was the biggest celebration since we've been here (in two months there has been atleast 5 festivals/celebrations!). People spend lots of money on commercial grade fireworks. This means anyone can pop the firecrackers that you would see at a 4th of July show--the huge kind--right in their back yard (or their apt. complex) For 5 nights fireworks can be heard and seen around the city. Near us they went off until about midnight. On Thursday morning they started at 6am!! We thought for sure it was kids, but when Brian went outside to take a look it was families, lots of them, popping fireworks:) We learned that in South India it is traditional to pop fireworks in the morning and all day. We bought the boys some Sparklers and took them to the swimming pool Friday night to watch our neighbors pop really BIG fireworks.