Happy Moon Festival to everyone!
We started our celebrations off with dimsum with Tim and Heather. The actually had congee (rice porridge) so I got to eat too. Then last night we were invited to a wonderful party in honour of the Moon Festival. It was great to mean all of the new people and the girls had a blast making lanterns and eating “moon cookies” (I was thrilled to see that we are not the only family who has created a non-traditional dessert in honour of this occassion). Then the girls got to join the rest of the kids in a lantern parade through the neighbourhood which was a nice change as they are use to parading alone in front of our house.
Today we stayed close to home with the exception of church and Elspeth’s kungfu class. Dinner was chinese food of course and along with the traditional moon cakes we had “moon cupcakes” (which are much tastier if you ask me. Maybe one year I will get a traditional moon cake mold and play around at making a gluten free version that actually looks like the traditional variety). We had bought Katrine’s favourite variety of moon cake; the ones that she had at least half of at every breakfast in China last year only to be told by her that she couldn’t eat her favourite part as it was not fresh enough – darn shipping. Then it was off outisde to use our muscial lanterns before it rained and look at the setting sun….sorry, I mean moon, and talk about the people in China who love us and who we love. Of course the outside time was not long enough so the girls brought their lanterns inside and danced around for another half hour with the annoying, no I mean joyful, music playing non-stop. Not sure that the musical lanterns were the best choice we ever made. At least the girls enjoy them.
