This past Sunday, was Chinese New Year's Eve. We have now entered the Year of the Ox. To celebrate, we enjoyed a nice traditional dinner of dumplings at a famous dumpling restaurant in Yu Garden with our friends Matt, Jessica, Russ and TR. Then, around 8pm, our best friends Buster & Amy came over to our place ring in the new year. We always enjoy hanging out with them, laughing and playing cards. As midnight arrived we watched an insane amount of fireworks going off all over the city. As far as you can see! I know that last year I tried to put into words how incredible it is at that moment. But words cannot describe. The sky is so bright all across the city with fireworks it looks like daytime! Right after midnight we ate some more dumplings. It is said that the number of dumplings you eat right after midnight will have a direct reflection on how prosperous you are in the new year. So just to cover all our bases, we had dumplings for dinner at 5pm. We had dumplings again right after midnight. And then we had dumplings again on new year's day. I'll let y'all know in about 364 days how all the dumpling eating worked out for us.
On Friday, LingLing (our nanny/housekeeper) made homemade dumplings for us with the "help" of Gabe, Maddox, and myself. It was messy, but the boys loved making them. These are the dumplings that we ate just after midnight.
Madd-Dog and the soon to be eaten dumpling.
Family photo time!
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