The city is alive with red and gold decorations. We took the grandparents to see the Chinese Gardens - it was really lovely this year all covered with red ribbons, flags and lanterns. I'm so glad our friend Cheryl told us to visit it.
The kids thought it would be funny if they were "captured" by this Ancient Chinese Warrior.
We also celebrated at the Hong Bao Festival which takes place on the Float at Marina. This particular giant statue of the God of Fortune would spew out gold flakes, the old Chinese ladies would try to catch them in upside down umbrellas. They had no problem pushing my kids to the side, so I'm thinking that they are thinking the gold flakes will bring them lots of fortune this year.
The lights and lanterns are pretty impressive!
Here's Ella with the CBD skyline behind her. I can always get my princess to smile for me, even if my three boys have had it with the camera and their photo-crazy Mama.
One morning I took Howard and Sharon to Chinatown to do a historic walk for Chinese New Year. I just had to snap a photo of this sweet little old man, he looks like a Chinese caricature don't you think?
Here's Sharon listening to Geraldene's talk about the customs and ways of the Chinese. It was soooo interesting learning the what's and why's of CNY.
A drink stop at a local roast duck and rice coffee shop.
One of my favorite stops on the tour was checking out this old family bakery preparing all the pineapple tarts....they were DELISH!
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