Sunday, February 17, 2008

Happy Chinese New Year



The other week was Chinese New Year. It is the year of the rat. The same year that I was born. I had heard that The Hague was having a celebration in their Chinatown. Who knew they had one? So I went their on a nice sunny Saturday to see what was going on. And to make it even more exciting the city laid out a one kilometer red carpet which was apparently the world's longest. It was quite crowded but very interesting. It was celebrated in the traditional manner, complete with the dragon dance for good luck in the upcoming year.












Dragons