It's a Dog Year!

Kung Hey Fat Choi!

Yesterday was Chinese New Year, this one being the year of the Dog. WooHoo. And where better to celebrate than... er, London ;)

We arrived in Trafalgar Square in time to catch mayor Ken Livingston's speech and that of the Chinese Ambassador and, get this, we even saw the Red Arrows! Except that, due to some reason or another, they couldn't fly and all the pilots filed onto the stage (not in formation) to which our lady compere uttered

"As you can see, they're not in their planes!"

NO! You don't say... and...

"Red is a lucky colour which is why they're wearing red" (flightsuits)

Er, excuse me dear, I think it's because they're the red arrows...

So after our pre-schooling we watched the dragon dances, more dragon dances, went off to Leicester Square to queue for noodles, got deafened by firecrackers, hit Chinatown for more dragon dances and a crowd crush where I had to struggle to stop the idiot hordes from quite literally squeezing the air out of my lungs and breaking any more ribs!

Then more firecrackers, snacking on dragon's beard candy and then finally the temperature dropped below zero so we headed for home. Via the London Eye, of course, lit up in red just for the ocassion :)

Wealth, health, happiness, prosperity & success to you all.

Kung Hey Fat Choi!