Happy New Year!

Wow! this new year thing is no joke down here! As my Virginia friend Dustin would put it "That was some MAD fire cracking i'm tellin'yall!!"
Streets filled up with smoke banging and flashing solid for hours.. 'thought we'd be deaf by dawn! (i just wanted to throw in "deaf by dawn" cause i thought it sounded cool! maybe for a movie title or something! ..any producer out there??)

So here's how it looked up in the sky..


.. but down in the streets it was straight up Bagdad!!


.. but it didn't prevent Richard, Tao and i to do our little new year celebration in my hotel room!