Happy New Year

January 26 marked Chujie which is the first day of the lunar new year. Chujie or "Sping Festival" is a three-day celebration. It is celebrated with visiting family and friends and lots of fireworks. We had some friends over to celebrate. We had a finger foods that included: homemade mac and cheese, tuna salad sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly sanwiches, apple slices, mandrine oranges, banana pudding, pringles (and pringle type chips), and ramen noodle cabbage salad

We took alot of video of the fireworks that were detonated around our neighborhood.

This is a video of Gentry writing her name with a sparkler. The sparkler that we used here are nothing like the gunpowder on a 8 inch piece of burning hot steel that was given to me by my saftey conscious parents when I was a child. They are about 36 inch pieces of wood with at least 16 inches of handle.


These videos were taken around 8:30 p.m. There was a break in the fireworks from 9:00 p.m. until about 11:30 p.m. It picked up from 11:30 p.m. until well after midnight.

~ Brad