Boston celebrates the Year of the Rat!

[Carol]

On a cultural note...

Tomorrow (Sunday, Feb 17) Boston's Chinatown will be celebrating the Year of the Rat!

There will be a parade, lion dancing, street fairs, and from what I hear...lots and lots of dim sum. I've been told that a few of the Gong Fu schools in the neighborhood are organizing some of the lion dancing.

Anyone else from New England planning on going?

 

[Andy Moynihan]

Appropriate, given this is an election year.......

 

[Xue Sheng]

Sadly no

Appropriate, given this is an election year.......

Any resemblance to the US political system and Chinese years is purely coincidental

 

[Andy Moynihan]

I know, it's just a shockingly appropriate coincidence, is all.

 

[Carol]

The Chinese New Year celebrations were A LOT of fun.

I put a bit of a writeup on my blog in case anyone is interested

http://northernsanctuary.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-year-of-honorable-rat.html

 

[Xue Sheng]

The Chinese New Year celebrations were A LOT of fun.

I put a bit of a writeup on my blog in case anyone is interested

http://northernsanctuary.blogspot.com/2008/02/happy-year-of-honorable-rat.html

OH MAN... First you tell me the whole Berklee College of Music thing and NOW you throw it in my face that you went to the Chinese New year’s festival in Boston... But I will get even.... I'll show you... I'll go the CHINA for new years one year....:uhyeah:

Thanks for the link Carol, I am glad to hear you enjoyed it.

 

[Carol]

OH MAN... First you tell me the whole Berklee College of Music thing and NOW you throw it in my face that you went to the Chinese New year’s festival in Boston... But I will get even.... I'll show you... I'll go the CHINA for new years one year....:uhyeah:

Thanks for the link Carol, I am glad to hear you enjoyed it.

Hey, you could have joined us! We would have loved to have you

Seriously....you've been to CHINA...New Years or otherwise...and that alone makes me envious

 

[MA-Caver]

Appropriate, given this is an election year.......

:roflmao:

 

[Xue Sheng]

Hey, you could have joined us! We would have loved to have you

Seriously....you've been to CHINA...New Years or otherwise...and that alone makes me envious

That doesn't count, that was last year :uhyeah:

Actually I was supposed to be going back in a couple of months but things change and I am not going now. This is actually a good thing because I am desperately trying to NOT be in Beijing for any part of the Olympics.

And before anyone asks why; My reason think of it this way a city with a permanent population 8 times greater than NYC a little less than 20 times more area than NYC and just about the entire damn place is a construction zone