Hey Jerome,
Yeah, I feel as enthusiastic as you do. The show looks to be decent and looks like it will be better than last week, both weather wise and display wise, but, according to what I've read, it looks like La Ronde will benefit more from this one, yet again.
Anyways, as long as there's not that much of big pauses in the air, then that's fine. And no false start at the beginning.
As for the display I saw last night, well, there were lots of salutes throughout the display

and mainly lots of colorful shells. I was also surprised to see some "shell of shells" there, too. Actually, I was very surpsrised to see those. That was the first time.

I was fortunate enough to see the firing site from where I was standing, so everything was over my head and you can get a fair idea of how close I was. It was rather loud, too, primarily being so close.
The ending was rather exciting, once again, being close, with some kamuro and salute mixes at the bottom along with some glittering mines. Then the top was building up with some small shells and then closed with tons of salutes and 5 massive shells at the top. These felt so close that you could literally touch them. The wind was pretty gusty last night, blowing towards the east, so you could smell the sulfur where I was standing.
Finally, although it was a 15 minute display, I was surprised to see that thousands of people came after estimating concentrated areas. As I said to my family, fireworks are as popular as ever, even if it's a 15 minute display. It just goes to show.
Regards,
Trav.
