National Day

August 9/10 are days that commemorate the 'Birth of Singapore', it is similar to our Fourth of July- Independence day celebrations. These pictures are from numerous parts of the city that we wandered around during the festivities. Hundreds of people gathered at City Hall to watch fireworks, hear speakers, see military planes flying over, etc... They sang the National Day Song which was "What do you see?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0I2inJdaT8&feature=player_embedded). As always we ended up in a mall during part of the celebration and people were jumping up and down singing it. Although we felt slightly out of place it was incredible to see the amount of pride citizens had in their country *ah class, i have to finish this later*