Anyway, I would happily stay camped inside with the air conditioning all day except that that's kind of boring and I was told that due to the Chinese New Year, I should check out Chinatown this weekend because there would be lots going on, so that's where I went.
It was too unbearably hot for me to stay for too long - I'm sure I didn't make it past half an hour - and I walked up and down the Chinatown area and only saw one celebration thing going on: drummers and dancers and of course, the dragons:
It was hard to get a good photo since there was still traffic and stuff going down the street. And notice the smoke? When I was walking down the street approaching this event, I almost thought a building was on fire, there was so much. And then once I was standing there watching, they set some fire crackers off again - a whole bunch at once going off with very loud bangs for about 30 seconds (we all had to cover our ears, then cover our noses and mouths) - it filled the street with smoke, I swear.
So anyway, that was the one exciting thing about Chinatown today. I'm sure if I stuck around, I'd see lots more, but there was that whole thing with the world ending and the unbearable heat...
Also going down to that part of the city meant that I passed by one of the only places where there is still a Krispy Kreme, yaaaaaay!
