Happy Chinese New Years

We started the two week celebration of Chinese New Years Saturday at the Columbia Museum of Art as they had a little Chinese New Years festival.  There were several arts and crafts for the children, some chinese food, a lion dance, and a dragon dance.  A very nice Chinese national painted us a Happy New Years banner in Chinese characters.  Later in the afternoon we went to the Chinese New Years celebration with other members of the Midlands FCC (Families with Chinese Children).  We had arts and crafts for the children, a lot of chinese food, and had a lion dance for the kids with fire works.  The fireworks was actually bubble wrap that the kids jumped on.  They had a blast.  There were about 30 adopted Chinese children in attendance.  Here are some pictures of the days events.