February 7th was Chinese New Year's Eve this year. We had dinner at Yehyeh's and wore our new chinese outfits. Yumi wore hers too. I didn't get a great shot to show off the outfit so I chased him around the house when we got home, snapping pictures, hoping to get a good one. Well, mixed results... :)
PS. I found this really funny! (But oh, so true even today!!) Back in the 1970s, children in Hong Kong used the saying: 恭喜發財,利是逗來,伍毫嫌少,壹蚊唔愛 (Cantonese), roughly translated as, "Happy New Year, now give me a red envelope, fifty cents is too little, don't want a dollar either." It basically meant that they disliked small change - coins which were called "hard substance" (Cantonese: 硬嘢). Instead, they wanted "soft substance" (Cantonese: 軟嘢), which was either a ten dollar or a twenty dollar bill.
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