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Last night was quite an experience, and
unfortunately it was not a very happy one. The independence
day party was rather interesting. there was not much to do
besides walk around and get wasted, which most of the people
did. There was four stages set up with live music however,
they were all cover bands that sounded the same and sang
very poor renditions of American music. The rest of the time
people just milled around causing trouble.
At about 10 pm the Duke finally showed up for
a fire parade done by the boy and girl scouts, which was
pretty cool to look at. Surprisingly there were not that
many people in the square watching it with us. They were in
a different square, the one with the alcohol. But this
provided us with excellent front row seats.
We strolled down to the grund and found a
spot for the grand fireworks display that was to start at
11pm. They kicked off at about 12pm but were absolutely
amazing. We were so close that we had fireworks debris
falling all over us but the view was the best I have ever
had.
Then unfortunately the night took a very sour
note. There are only two bridges back to our hotel and one
was closed because it was where the fireworks were set off
from. This left us with only one option. When we got down to
the bridge it was a very ugly scene. The bridge was packed
shoulder to shoulder with angry, drunk people. There were
absolutely thousands of people on this bridge and we were
stuck in the middle of a riot. We finally broke free of the
riot after about 45 minutes and off to the side after
fighting the crowds and getting knocked over. We realized
that the situation was going to turn dangerous and we just
wanted out. So we waited on the side hopeful that some
Police or other officials would show up and ease the
situation, but they never did.
After about an hour the crowd dispersed and
we were able to cross the bridge. This delay however, caused
us to miss the last bus to our hotel so we had about and
hour walk back to our hotel through some pretty sketchy
neighborhoods.
Just remember the answer if anyone ever asks
you if they should go to Luxembourg...
NO
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Elizabeth
