Chinese New Year!

In case you can't tell, we are not Chinese... but we LOVE to do some Chinese New Year celebrating. We wore red all day for good luck, did a little craft, and explored the Chinese Cultural Center festival.

This craft idea caught my eye from this site. Jake participated too, but I was too busy keeping him from painting his face to be able to take a picture of him. :) I definitely didn't have any chinese newspaper lying around, so I just printed a chinese newspaper page from a google search and then we cut it apart to look like a skyline...






We met up with Grandma and Grandpa Dangerfield and Pete, Lacy, and Scout at the Chinese Cultural Center for the Chinese New Year festival...

It made me laugh when I noticed that Jake was plugging his ears... they were sitting close to the speakers and music was quite loud while the girl was dancing

Exploring the booths, checking out some fun fans

At one of the booths, a man was showing people some chinese writing and explaining a bit about the different tones used when speaking... it seems SO complicated but the writing is so beautiful





The crew with their souvenirs