I rarely take them both to the store, but it was a work day for David and a holiday for our Ayi, so off we went. When we returned we played down stairs for a little while, watching a few neighbors put the finishing touches on their banners and New Year's lanterns that they hang in their doorway.
Our campus is like a ghost town, all of our neighbors have gone home to parents' houses for the Holiday. This is great for play time, not as crazy with cars and motos.
For lunch our fave noodle place was closed so we went to the duck restaurant. Lots of other people were there too. Eating duck on Chinese NewYear...seemed fitting.
chowing on a drumstick
chowing on a 'potato pancake'
this dog was with his owner in the restaurant, this is not uncommon. He was so cute, and was very spoiled.
And oh yes, he is a ManU fan (that is Manchester United, English Premier league football/soccer, for those in the US)
The girls went down for naps and all the fireworks really started. Every few minutes another round. These are not like fourth of July fireworks, these are just LOUD, not pretty, Tonight they will get both loud and pretty. Sophia finally went to sleep and slept through some REALLY loud bangs.
Before dinner we played and lit a few sparklers. David indeed needed no prodding on buying some fireworks. He spent about five U.S. dollars on what in the States would have cost probably 40 or 50 dollars. Most of these are pretty tame, but he did buy one that is about half a stick of dynamite.
We ate PB and J with green smoothies for dinner. Now we wait for sundown to light our fireworks. We plan on traveling to our helper's village on Saturday, which also happens to be the day I turn Four and Thirty (I am in the middle of watching Emma, and that is how they talk, kinda like it).
More adventures of our Chinese New Year tomorrow!
