Monday was the full moon that marked the end of the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year. I saw a girl carrying a paper lantern hanging from a stick and remembered that this is the lantern festival. We had our family dinner the night before at the new hotel at the wild animal park. So Monday night I had no one to feed me tong yuan.
Now people are coming back to work, the TV news showed all those peach blossom branches, tangerine, somekwat trees and flowers being fed into a trash truck. The lanterns and lights that festooned the walkways around my building are gone. The traffic noise is loud again and the dancing in the square is going hot and heavy. They are more into costumes this year then I remember from last year. The belly dance girls have their gold bangle belts, the ballroom people have some nice skirts and shinny pants, the tai qi people have satin, and the low impact aerobics leaders are all sparkly with the followers in blue and white or red and black, except for the back rows who forgot the outfit. There are so many people it seems the flowers are now getting in the way.
The weather has been getting warmer and warmer, so it's nice to be out, although there were a few dancers on one cold rainy night that I passed through. Tonight it is all aglow.
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