Year of the Dragon!

January 29, 2012-03-21

Today we met up with Jen at the train station and headed into London for the Chinese New Year. It was really funny because when we got out of the station we decided to get Starbucks and Jen said that when you are in London and you want a Starbucks you can never find one. Well on our walk around the city that day we saw about 5 lol! Every time we were saying ‘Never find a Starbucks lol’. Then we met Ashley at the other station and we all headed to Trafalgar Square. We walked around a bit and looked around. There were tons of people and we were at a standstill sometimes. It was the Year of the Dragon (my birth year!) and we really wanted to see the Dragon dance. We found a spot to stand on the stairs where we could see the big screen and part of the stage. We waited through the very long, and boring speeches just to see the Dragon dance. While we were waiting Ashley really wanted a balloon. They were handing them out from up top. She went over and it was so funny to watch her continuously try to grab a balloon but because she was so short and other people were pushy it took her forever! She finally got one though. Then next thing you know they had moved down to where we were handing them out lol so I got one for Heavens. The Dragon dance finally came on and it was definitely worth the wait! There were two dances. The first one was amazing! Two guys were the dragon, one for the head and one for the butt. They started dancing on the ground and next thing you know they jumped onto these stilt poles and were dancing all along the poles. It was so amazing to see them jump up and down and it really looked like a dragon, you forgot it was people. After that dance was another dragon dance but this time it was a bunch of people holding the sticks with the dragon on top. This one was good but not as good as the other one. We decided to walk through the streets of Chinatown and find a place to eat. We saw some people dressed up, some more dragons, and the tree of prosperity which Heavens threw in the tree and it stayed!! YAY! Hopefully she made a good wish! Then we went and got some really nice Chinese Food. It was yummy! We were quite tired after that so we headed back home. It was a really nice day and it was shared with some really nice people.

Until next time,

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