Fireworks Fun Times

This weekend has been a busy weekend full of adventures! One of the things Rich and I did this weekend was check out the Guy Fawks display on Saturday night. This year the council decided not to have the Guy Fawks display on the 5th of November, instead they had it on the following Saturday night so more people could check out the display.

This year we decided not to head to the waterfront, but instead headed up to Mount Street near Victoria University. There were less crowds and we still had a really great view of the fireworks.

As always, I still think its pretty weird we continue to celebrate Guy Fawks in New Zealand - but we get to see a fancy fireworks display for free, so I'm not going to get to hung up about it. 

Guy Fawkes 2012

I know to some people it may seem strange - but we do celebrate Guy Fawkes night in New Zealand. I guess its an overhang from our days as a British colony. I don't think many people really think too much about the history of Guy Fawkes night though,  for us its really just an excuse for us to have fireworks!

I used to LOVE Guy Fawkes night when I was young - we used to always make a Guy, have a bon fire and let off heaps of fireworks!

These days I live in an inner city apartment so letting off fire works really isn't safe or practical - so instead last night we went to the waterfront to watch the fireworks display the council put on each year.

Pretty amazing right? My little point and shoot camera really doesn't do justice to the fireworks display, it was awesome.

If you were celebrating Guy Fawkes Night last night I hope you had a great time whatever you got up too xoxo