Greetings to all Wilson fans out there. While most of our friends and family in the US are pretty much recovered from the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year season, Chun Jie (Chinese New Year) is just starting to get under way.
Imagine the crowds of Christmas shoppers in the stores that you frequent and multiply it by at least 3. Bright displays, holiday music, loads of candy and gifts that will be exchanged. And those few eager souls who just HAVE to shoot off a few fireworks now. Oh yeah, fireworks stands on the street corners. Imagine a long Christmas break combined with HOURS of Fireworks on the night of Chinese New Year.
This year is the "year of the Rabbit" saying goodbye to the Tiger of last year. Last year we sent our grandson, Justice, a stuffed Tigger. Maybe Bugs Bunny this year? We'll only have to do 10 more animals and he'll have the complete set.
Something that is happening in our complex, that I assume has something to do with the celebration is that on bushes all around are spread long green leafy vegetables for drying. Sometime I'm going to take Mark and the dictionary and ask someone what they do with that vegetable and if it is for some sort of special holiday food. I'm very curious about it all.
The coolest thing for me (Jamye) this year is that I'm going on a trip up into the mountains with a friend for Chinese New Year. We will be visiting the home town of a good friend, stay with her family and get to share her families celebration. I'm really looking forward to that! I hope to bring back some really good stories and pictures from this. I just hope I can keep up with my running program while there, I've been doing really well and want to keep the momentum moving along.
Well, to all our dear friends and family out there we hope you have a very good Chinese New Year Day whether you celebrate it or not.
Now off to pack!
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