1.10.2009 at 10 o'clock sharp the National day parade begun. It's impossible to get anywhere near Tianmen where it's held so that's why i did as 1 billion other Chinese did; stayed home and watched the whole show on TV.
The parade began with a short speech from the President and after the speech he rode around the square in a huge Rolls Royce and greeted all the soldiers on the square. The President shouted in the huge speakers "Greetings Comrades" and the army answered "Greetings high commander". After the greetings and formalities the tanks started to roll into the square, hundreds of them! After the 1 hour army march it continued with all kinds of minority groups of China and a lot of dancers. There were thousands and thousands of people passing the square every minute but it still went on for almost 3 hours. More people than whole Helsinki took part in this 3 hour amazing event! There were a lot of fighter jets flying around and i managed to take some pictures of them from the balchony.
The evening didn't leave anyone cold either because this was probably the worlds biggest firework show so far. I heard that they used more fireworks yesterday than they did when the Olympics were in Beijing last year. I got some pictures of the fireworks as well and i kinda lighted up the whole downtown. The timing of the fireworks were so amazing, they made figures in the sky of smiley faces and pigeons, never seen anything like this before! China 60 years, i salute you, please open facebook, youtube and my blogg ASAP!
At the moment Hede is posting and updating my blog because i can't access it anymore...
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