My Chinese is a bit rusty since out of practice lately, but I meant to say above..."Happy New Year! I'm very happy. This year is my year - pig year. I like pigs." Since I'm sure someone out there will correct my Chinese. (Cathy!)
Anyhow, today is Chinese New Year, marking the first day of the Year of the Pig, which is MY YEAR! So I've had special reason to look forward to this day. Also, pigs are my favorite animal because they represent wealth and prosperity.
So Sonja, Thomas and I were supposed to go to the New Year festivities in Chinatown this year, but Sonja has been ill lately :( so me and Thomas went by ourselves. Yes, I borrowed the Governator from Sonja for the day. Leicester Square was SO CROWDED and it was mostly non-Chinese people. London goes full out for the holiday. First we saw the parade down the Strand and then we went into Leicester Square to look at the different stands selling Chinese goods and ate some Chinese food. Then we stuck around for the firework show at 2pm.
Awww...poor Thomas is a lost child.
Remember those little Chinese noisemakers that Taiwanese kids would bring from Taiwan to school? I used to LOVE these but they were outlawed at school when I was young. So I was so excited to see these here. I bought a bunch and Thomas and I threw them all over the ground like the little kids were doing. Didn't throw them at old people though.
Me and the Governator. We asked this Chinese man to take this picture, and for some reason, he thought we meant that I wanted to take a picture with him.
Happy pigs.
London Chinatown.
Dragon dance show in a small PACKED alley in Chinatown. It was impossible to move.
Very important people.
This is Harvey, 3 years old. He was very brave during the whole fireworks show and didn't cry. We gave him noisemakers to throw and he loved it. I kept telling him, "You're so cute!" and he'd nod and say "Yeah." Haha.
Chinese fireworks are really LOUD.
And smokey. Thomas said he felt like he was in the Middle East.
Communist attack on London! Ahhhh!!!
I wish you all a great Chinese New Year. This is MY YEAR. :) 恭喜发财！(Gong-xi fa-cai!)
1 comment:
So we both are pigs!!
Have a nice year, lovely pig, from your lovely friend, your pig.
It is supposed to be our year ah!
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