Tet - Flower Festival

Well it's almost that time of year to celebrate the Lunar New Year again.  It's going to be a little earlier this year on January 26th, two days after Makayla's 3rd birthday.  It's usually the 1st weekend in February but not this year.  We couldn't get the whole family together this year to do the "Tet" festival so we decided to go check out the flowers and orchid shows in Little Saigon.  It's about a week before the actual New Year so it was very, very busy and quite crowded with everyone preparing for the big holiday!

Makayla in her traditional Vietnamese gown that Ba Ngoai brought back from Vietnam a few years ago.  It fits her perfectly!  Here she is with the dragon headpiece.  This is what the wear for the traditional dragon dance.  I can't believe she wanted to go stand next to this.

Here she is with the good luck Buddha.  She even rubbed his belly for great luck in the New Year!

The girls with their Daddy.  It was a beautiful day out to check out all the flowers. You can see in the background the little booths with all the red fire cracker displays.  Of course they're fake one's but fun to have the decorations.  Really gets you in the cultural mood!  Mylee is also wearing a pink traditional gown that was Makayla's when she was a baby.  It actually fit her perfectly!

Ong Ngoai & Ba Ngoai with their grand daughters!  This is only a few of the orchid displays and these are the simple and plain ones.  It was too hard to take pictures of the nicer displays because it was just too crowded and too hot.

We're now hungry for some lunch so we headed in doors where it was  cooler.  Daddy got Makayla her favorite drink, Strawberry/Lychee slush with Boba!  Yummy to cool her down!

Mylee is hungry too.  She didn't do too well in the heat and crowd.  Was not a happy camper checking out the flowers.  She's much better now.