happy early chinese new year!

chinese new year is february 7. 2008 is the year of the rat, in case you were wondering.

this past saturday was the annual celebration put on in raleigh by the triangle area chinese american society. we got to celebrate with one of darby’s china “sisters,” kylie, and her mom and dad. more pictures and info at C.C.’s blog.

we had a great time watching performances of several different chinese art forms, including the lion dance, the dragon dance and chinese opera. we also sampled some chinese foods: dragon whiskers candy, lo mein noodle dish, lamb gyros and cheese fries (yeah, i was confused too!).

our girls are a still bit too young to get the full benefit, but i look forward to exposing darby to these types of events as she gets older so that she’ll be able to maintain a connection with her heritage.

on a somewhat disappointing note, we learned that although our new friend Lin IS from Lianjiang, China, he IS NOT from the same province. apparently there is more than one Lianjiang City in China. darby is from Lianjiang, Guangdong Province. Lin is from Lianjiang, Fujian Province. bummer.