New Year Happiness! Dragon Horse Energy!

Happy New Year from the Star Ferry to Tsim Sha Tsui!

A tradition of Chinese New Year is the seasonal four character greetings, such as Kung Hei Fat Choi, Lung Ma Jing San, or San Tai Gin Hong! The blessings of prosperity, energy of the horse and dragon or healthy bodies is readily accepted from passing friends. The best is when you hear two people trying to see who knows more sayings than the other. It is great Chinese wisdom if you have at least ten sayings you could shout out in a moments notice. I am but a young grasshopper with the four I know. Even though it is the First day of the New Year it still is Sunday so church was where we were. Maleah got a little sick in the night and we wanted to make sure it wasn't the flu so the girls stayed home in the morning while I flew solo. Maleah was feeling fine and we figured it was something else so they came down in the afternoon and we visited the sisters of Island I. This was the branch that we attended when we were here last time, and they hadn't seen Maleah so you can only imagine 100 women all dying to see our little Angel. It was fun...to say the least...We kept it pretty calm today but we did take the ferry to Tsim Sha Tsui in hopes of catching a Lion or Dragon Dance on our way home. We found a Dragon, but there was no dancing and other than that it was just lots and lots of people. Once we got on the train we weren't sure if we were going to get out. The best part of the day though had to be at around 12:04 in the morning when someone set off a firecracker right by our house. Now these aren't the firecrackers you get from the cardboard boxes sitting in the grocery store parking lot during the 4th of July, this is a Machine gun of noise so loud the guy lighting it had to have peed a little it was so loud! Now almost having a heart attack wasn't the best part it was Cassie rolling over saying, "Who in the world does something like that in the middle of the night?" my only response was, "I don't know," As I thought of us banging pots and pans and blowing horns at the strike of 12 January 1st...Happy Chinese New Year!

We could only find this sleeping dragon...sorry no dancing...maybe tomorrow