Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year was this week! It is the most important holiday in China. Everyone celebrates with their families, and with lots of food, and and lots and LOTS of fireworks. It was pretty exciting to be here to see it all.

People all around our neighborhood have been doing lots fireworks every single night for more than a week! We can just go out on our balconies, or even just look out our bedroom windows, and see so many of them. The big huge kind that go way up in the sky, like we see on the Fourth of July in America sometimes! They are really really loud, and so cool! On Chinese New Year's Eve, my Dad counted and he could see 8 sets of fireworks all at once just from our one balcony. We could hear maybe 25 different sets of fireworks going off. And one night, there were fireworks going from 8:00 at night until 8:00 the next morning! Our mom and dad didn't sleep very well that night, but we slept right through it all.

Plus last week our Ayi made us jiowzi, the best beef dumplings ever. It's very important to eat them for Chinese New Year, she said. We decorated with red paper streamers and fancy paper fish (they are the most important animals for the New Year--they bring you good luck and a happy year) Then we each got a stuffed cow toy, because it's the year of the Ox. Here is how you write Ox in Chinese (by S).

新年好! Happy New Year!

The Meikle Boys