Chinese New Year Fireworks

We were to leave Shanghai at 5:30 A!M! on thursday. Wednesday night was a big night in the 2 weeks of celebration, mainly for fireworks. Knew we needed sleep, but went on deck at 11:30, because you could already hear them starting. It kept increasing and increasing until at midnight it was constant fireworks on all sides(because our ship was docked in the river right in the middle of it all). Explosions behind the buildings, which were all darkened for this, and in front of them, close up AND far into the distance and in between. I don't think my little camera video will do it justice. A student came up to see what was going on and said, "Sounds like we're in a war zone!" It was freezing out there, but I stayed to see what happened at midnight, which was just more of the same, because it couldn't increase any more. But it kept on and on. A new expression could be "....for all the fireworks in China!" And we thought they shipped them all to the U.S.