Tama River Fireworks Festival

The Annual Tama River Fireworks Festival was tonight, so Kei's family decided to have a party. We crammed about 20 people into our little apartment, and then headed down to the river to watch the show. Kei and I decided to hang back with a couple of her friends and her father until the action started but soon realized moving down to the river was pointless. We were cleaning up empty beer cans and sushi platters when the windows rattled making us think that the Big One had finally come. Turns out the Fireworks Festival was happening only two hundred yards off our balcony. The sonic booms were causing our whole building to shake!