CHINESE NEW YEAR

There were red lanterns everywhere. Jim said the Chinese New Year is also called the Spring Festival even though it didn't feel very springy. On Sunday a bunch of our group went to a festival in the city. We were too tired and didn't go. If I had it to do over I would have gone. Don and Sean went swimming and I went to the grocery store in the mall and started packing.

Sean and his dragon ornament.

As we were leaving the hotel they had a New Years celebration.

There were tables of food for the dragon. Gotta keep that dragon happy!

Seeing this picture reminded me that we went to a fabulous Peking duck dinner, so yummy.

Dragon Ceremony

I made a video though it doesn't do justice to the volume. There were thousands of fire crackers going of and drummers drumming. It was awesome. I seem to use the word awesome a lot to describe our vacation.