Chinese New Year

Today is New Year's Eve in the lunar calendar. I have to say, people celebrate here in style. Last night, which wasn't a holiday at all as far as I know, people all over my city were setting off fireworks. From my balcony I could see dozens of different firework displays. I've never seen more than two at once before (one city I was living in had a fireworks display on the same night as the neighboring city - I could see theirs in the distance). People were also setting off firecrackers at street level. I thought there were supposed to be fireworks tonight - was that what I heard about, or will there be even more tonight? I couldn't go to bed until 3 last night because of all the noise. It's raining pretty hard now though. Maybe the fireworks had to moved up a day.<br><br>Pigeon Update: The baby pigeon appears to have hatched, but I all I see is the mother pigeon and the broken egg. I'm not sure if the baby pigeon is hiding under the mother pigeon or not.