Year Of The Rat?? Hmmpf...the Year Of The Dog is better!Happy New Year and welcome to the Year Of The Rat! Kung hei fat choi - this is the traditional Chinese New Year greeting and means "congratulations and be prosperous to you and me".
We have had a wonderful time celebrating our first Chinese New Year! Here's a link to Wikipedia if you'd like to read a little more about Chinese New Year. We're still learning about all the traditions and customs ourselves. Not to worry...we have a lifetime to learn all about it.
We started our celebration Thursday evening by having dinner at a Chinese restaurant with our friend, Janis. The restaurant is near Tony's new office so we stopped in for a quick visit. Lily's favorite part of Daddy's new office is the full length mirror in the bathroom! Really, can you blame her???
We have had a wonderful time celebrating our first Chinese New Year! Here's a link to Wikipedia if you'd like to read a little more about Chinese New Year. We're still learning about all the traditions and customs ourselves. Not to worry...we have a lifetime to learn all about it.
We started our celebration Thursday evening by having dinner at a Chinese restaurant with our friend, Janis. The restaurant is near Tony's new office so we stopped in for a quick visit. Lily's favorite part of Daddy's new office is the full length mirror in the bathroom! Really, can you blame her???
Dinner was yummy and it's always great to spend time with Janis. Even though Tony and Janis no longer work together I know we'll remain friends.
By the way, Janis is the creative lady responsible for this precious little picture of Lily.
Saturday afternoon Lily and I headed to the Families with Children from China (FCC) Chinese New Year's celebration. Let's just say Lily did not have a good time. You see, Lily thought a visit to Santa Claus was a walk in the park compared to sneaking a peek of the Monkey King in the Chinese opera!! After spotting that scarey fellow Lily began a mantra of "outside, outside, outside..." and away we went.
This Monkey King looks much friendlier than the one we saw!
Does anyone recognize these crazy women??
The beautiful dress Lily has on in the pictures below was a gift from Liza, my cousin Susan's daughter. Liza recently went to Beijing to perform with her tap dance troupe and was sweet enough to remember Lily while she was there! Thanks Liza...I think you'll agree Lily looks precious!!
The Chinese New Year and Spring Festival are celebrated over a 15 day period in China. Not wanting to be outdone we also have New Year's plans for next weekend, too!
1 comment:
I'm just catchin up on the blog. Why now, I might understand why the trip to the chinese new year celebration might have been a bit nightmare-ish for our lily! Santa looks a bit tame to me now, too! I was honored to be part of the celebration with our dinner out together. And I just loved seeing lily with her friends at the tea party - just too cute!
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