National Days/Weeks

It's taken a month for me to be back to almost-normal, and I'm a little creativity-challenged right now, so I've decided to combine two previous ideas.  Each week on Monday I'll post two photos which represent a "national day" or "national week" for the coming week [through the following Sunday].  Your job is to figure out which national day or week is depicted in each photo.  For example, if it's Monday December 20 and I post a photo of a Christmas tree, it's likely that the day represented is Christmas Day.  But there are a LOT of little-known national days and weeks.  For example, February 2 is Ground Hog Day and February 5 is Ice Cream for Breakfast Day.  So I could have used one of those this week but I didn't.

Here are the photos for this week.  What national day or week does each represent?  Even if you aren't 100% sure, make your best guess!  Come back next week to see if you're right.

#1 [Feb 2-6]

#2 [Feb 4]

2022 is off and running!

Unfortunately, it's not running in the desired direction.  On December 31, 2021, I took advantage of celebrating the beginning of the new year from a hospital bed.  Thankfully this was NOT COVID related.  Didn't come home until January 6, 2022.

Operating room, 1899

This means it can only go up from here, right??!

Hopefully I'll have a real blog post next week.  Has your 2022 been better than mine so far?