Little did I know, the children were flanking me like native forces in gorilla warfare.
Suddenly I was surrounded on both sides with two little children declaring, "we want to see the New Year Dragon! We want to see the New Year Dragon!"
"Excuse me?" I said.
Jane explained to me that she and Elliot wanted to see the Dragon for what she described as the "Inee" New Year.
"The Chinese New Year?" I clarified.
"Yes. The dragon of the Ineese New Year," Jane said.
"Guys, I'm not even sure when the Chinese New Year begins. And I don't know that it's the Year of the Dragon," I told them.
They just looked at me confused and told me they wanted to see the dragon as they ran away to hatch more plans.
Off I went to Google.
Sure enough, it would be the Year of the Dragon. Set to begin January 23.
How did they even know this?
Frankly, that part is still a mystery. But I learned that the Museum of Asian Art in Dallas would be having a Chinese New Year celebration on Friday, January 20.
Free and open to all ages, it offered crafts of red envelopes, dragon puppets, Chinese lanterns and face painting, all culminating with a dragon parade.
There was only one thing my children wanted to do and it was the same as every other child there. Can you guess what it was?
Face painting.
We had our very own Jane Dragon.
(No Elliot Dragon this year. Apparently his super powers and willpower melt when met with face paints.)
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| Now we know: No Santa, parades or face painting. |
2 comments:
so cute!
Were they watching caillou? There is an episode about chinese new years and a dragon parade
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