CNY & Tet

This is the Chinese year of the Rabbit and the Vietnamese year of the Cat. We celebrated in Cork this year. We stayed two nights in the Silver Springs hotel for the IGGC CNY event. We met up with Gennie, Kai, Sonia and Dave so the kids were in their element. On the Saturday morning myself, Grace, Sonia and Gennie went to the life book workshop. It was a really lovely expereince to work with Grace on her book. She is so proud of it.
At the afternoon celebrations Grace and Gennie had their face's painted and Daniel and Kai had to be prized away from the rabbit hutch. The girls also spent hours at the arts and crafts stand. They glittered and glued and coloured to their hears content.
We sat at a table with another family for the meal. They have two little girls from China. Strangly, Gennie had a nose bleed at the meal, as did one of girls from the other family and then Grace had one later that night. There was dancing after the meal. Grace danced the legs off herself. She knows some seriously freaky dance moves:)
The following morning, after saying our goodbyes, we headed to the beach in Cobh. It was cold, but the sun was shining so we had a nice walk there before heading home again.