After our meal we walk by fashionable Nanjing Road and the Bund . There are many people walking along this promenade, with firecrackers serving as background music and various fireworks lighting the night sky around us. Legally prohibited in Chinese cities and banned downtown, nonetheless things really pick up with a grand display all around us as midnight approaches. Even during the taxi ride back there are festivities in the streets. On Tuesday afternoon, Yoshi, Debbie and I go downtown stopping at a new bookstore where we load up.
Fireworks continue for the rest of the week.
Mark joins us at Mr. Pizza Wednesday evening. Otherwise things are pretty quiet with everyone else away for the holiday. I try my hand at cooking a couple of times, and Debbie and I get caught up on some shopping, mail, and preparing for classes. She will be teaching an eight-week English course. Copyright 1999 Paul Miesing.