Xiayu's parents were supposed to join us for the day, and they had been ultra excited. However, the night before, her mother had had a bad bout of gastroenteritis or something, and even had to go to the emergency room in the morning. They were extremely disappointed as they had really been looking forward to a double-outing for CNY that day. :((
The little boy, however, had fun. At the Old Jail Art Center there were booths with activities for the little ones, and the little boy made sure to go to each one of them.
He got to "manhandle with supervision", some artifacts which the lady in charge very kindly and patiently explained the history of. As you can tell from the photos, the little boy was more interested with what was going on on a big screen that they had set up. ( It was an animated storybook version of the story of the Chinese New Year )
I even got in on the action on the Buddha Boards, where I (tried to) wrote out the Chinese characters for each of our zodiac animals.
Last year, the little boy ran away from the Japanese Drums with his hands over his ears. This year, he really enjoyed them, and tapped his feet, clapped his hands and danced in time to the drum beat.
I got to enjoy a little snack of Chinese stir fried noodles while the little boy did some mazes.
The Shackelford County Youth and Livestock show was on nearby, and so we decided to head over there next. It was quite an eye opener as I had never been to one before. The little boy was quite enthralled.
It was such a community thing, and I couldn't believe how much the bid kept going up up up for the animals that were shown.
We went "behind the scenes" and looked at the animals that were waiting to be auctioned off.
We got home with a little bit of time to let the dogs out and do a few things around the house, before we were out the door again to join the ACU CSSA kids for a Chinese New Year dinner at Sunrise. :) I mean, with Pig Trotters on the menu, you KNOW it is authentic Chinese food. :)
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