Chinese New Year

I had to take Mr Rabbit to the doctor on Saturday morning. He managed to get an ear infection after intensive swimming lessons all week. Silly me focused on Scooter not getting an ear infection and missed him as he'd never had one in his life, whereas she's had several. For the record, she didn't get an infection this time at all, and I nipped his in the bud quickly.

Anyway, the GP is at the big shopping centre near here. We were out by 11am, and it was getting busy (I really don't like crowds much, and Rabbit was nicely hyped up on panadol, so was being, um... 'bouncy' lol), so I decided to go to our nearby smaller centre to grab some groceries and a small snack for lunch.

I pulled into the carpark and it dawned on me. Chinese New Year. Sunnybank is the place to be for Chinese New Year celebrations and yep, it was crazy, insane busy lol But I found a park straight up, and besides the bustle of people inside, it was rather organised chaos lol and we grabbed some chips and Scooter even found a table in the food court easily enough for us.

I love Chinese New Year. Love the dances and the demonstrations and the art and crafts. It's the year of the Water Dragon which I think is pretty cool.

So I snapped a quick pic on my phone of Rabbit with the dragon on display.



We didn't stop at any of the activities as there were too many people, but we did have a good look :) While we were eating the drums and dragon dance started up behind us. The kids got a little peek at it before the noise of the drums was too much. If I had of been alone, I would have stayed for the whole performance, but, must respect the children's ear drums... mine are already past it ;) They did think it was pretty cool though, even if they did have to cover their ears lol

Next year I might even get organised and do one of the activities with them. A paper lantern or painted mask might be pretty fun :)