Sandra, you are braver than I would have been! I loathe crowds of that size, and have a moral objection to spending all that money on fireworks which just blow away in the wind. However a story in our local paper yesterday made me smile - the priest in a small town north of here has a pyrotechnics licence and puts on fireworks displays in the small towns hereabouts, donating the money to the church. His business is called ""Holy Smoke" ".