Pyrolympics - Awesome!

This was one awesome experience for me. It was the first that I watched this spectacular event. Unfortunately, I did not bring camera with me. So, I just searched thru the web for pictures of the show. Hmmm... the picture above was taken last year. But, the experience I bet was almost the same if I watched it last year or this year. Will there be a next year? I hope so. So I could watch it again. :D

So what's so spectacular about this event? Let me recount what happened.

I was fast asleep at around 4 pm. last Saturday, 31st of May 2008. Footsteps of my roommate comming home from school awakened me. It was already 7:10 pm. As she entered our room, she told me that she was about to text me and invite me to watch pyrolympics earlier. "Huh? pyrolympics? When? Where?" I asked her. She told me it was at MOA and would start at 8 pm.

Again, I checked my watch... It was already 7:20. So, I told her, "Come! Let's Go!" And she hesitated since she was already conditioned not to go. I told her again, "Let's Go! I will be changing now!" as I reached for my shorts that I wore when I went to SM a few hours ago."No! No! Don't ask me that!", she yelled at me. But I kept convincing her to go.

Finally, after a few minutes of persuading her, she agreed, and we hurriedly went to MOA.

Going to MOA was quite difficult. There were only a few jeepney going to LRT Buendia at that time (I don't know why). And when we finally got a ride, it was very traffic!

I was already hyperventilating. :D Some of the passengers got their gadgets (mobile phone, psp, etc) and started to play. After almost an hour of ride, we finally reached LRT Buendia (normally, the travel would take less than 30 min.).

We went to the jeepney terminal for MOA. But when we arrived there, there was a very long queue! "Oh no!!" This was not a good site! Everybody wanted to go to MOA! Fortunately, the waiting was quick. We were able to ride soon.

Most of the passengers were going in groups.

Family, friends, etc. The ride was Ok. There

was not much traffic.

We reached MOA minutes before 9 pm. By that time, we were already hungry. We looked for some stalls that were selling food, but couldn't decide what to buy. We continued walking towards the area where we can watch the Pyro. Before we could reach the area, we heard loud outburst of the fireworks. The show was already starting! The people, including us, started running.

What an awesome site!!!! Almost all of their displays were really work of art!

Everyone were looking up. And for every display, everyone would shout (depending on how beautiful it was). All of us would say "wooooowwww...." or "wOOoooooowww" or "WOOOOOOWWWWWwwwwww....." for every display.

The show lasted for 15 minutes. The final display was really amazing. It formed like a curtain, with lots of scattered fireworks. And everybody were greatly mesmerized.

After the show, we were starving. We looked at some stalls selling food. We bought some food and quickly ate it.

We headed for the jeepney terminal. Again, there was a very very long queue. Longer than the first queue. Finally, after more than an hour of waiting, we were able to ride a jeepney.

It was a really an exhausting travel, but would love to watch it again. :)

I'm looking forward for the next event! :)