Chinese New Year

Gung hei fat choy!

Today was the annual Chinese New Year parade in Vancouver. R and I went for the parade and then wandered around in Chinatown. It's been years since I've been down there, and it was kind of fun feeling like a tourist in our own city.

Cool dancers at the parade.

One of the many dragon dancers.

 After watching the parade for almost an hour and a half, we walked into a Chinese tea store, and ended up getting served teensy tiny cups of tea from a teapot that would make less than half of my regular mug. She got 8 cups out of it. It was an interesting little ritual, but I kind of prefer my tea black and in large quantities. From there, we wandered through several bulk stores and got some tea. It's so much cheaper than David's tea, but not quite the same..  We ended up wandering back to the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden and park, which I haven't been to since the end of grade 7. It was a dreary day, but still beautiful!

The Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese park.

From the garden, we ended up wandering to the old Woodward's. I have this picture on my phone, but I wanted a normal-sized version. Both my Dad and grandpa used to work at the old Woodward's, and Dad used to tell us stories about it. They make fantastic peanut butter.

The original Woodward's W on the left, and the new one on the right.

Lovely adventure in the misty rain aside, school is getting to be hectic.. but there is finally an end in sight! May 30th is my official graduate date! Let's just hope I have a job before then...