This was an event-filled weekend for me, even though I really didn’t do much.
Anniversary, Chinese New Years, and Valentine's Day
As you all know, yesterday was Valentine’s day. As I described in this post, the tulips were my V-day present to myself.
The tangerines are from my parents to celebrate Chinese new year, which was also on Valentine’s day. We went to their place for new year’s eve dinner on Saturday and also went to dim sum on Sunday, where we saw a lion dance at the restaurant.
I made a video of the lion dance and was hoping to show it online, but the file size is too large. It was a decent lion dance; the interesting thing is that one of the lions were made more modern with blinking LED lights covering the eyelids and various patterns all over the body.
Although I only made a video of that lion, I captured the second lion in a photo (shown below) while it was dancing around getting red pockets (i.e. tips) and bringing luck to each participating table in the restaurant.
Today is also the first year anniversary of my and my husband’s marriage. We completely forgot about this, but my mother-in-law kept and froze the top of the wedding cake for us. We are in the process of eating it. It still looks as pretty as it was a year ago.
I don’t have much to say that’s inspiring about all this. I am just thankful to be able to celebrate life.
Lion dance at a Chinese restaurant in Richmond Hill
To be honest, I spent most of this weekend watching the Winter Olympics. I was so happy when Alexandro Bilodeau won his gold medal in freestyle skiing. I loved seeing how ecstatic his brother was. It was also great to see how happy Bryon Wilson from USA was for getting the bronze medal, which was in stark contrast to how unhappy Dale Begg-Smith, who is a former Canadian and came in second, looked on the podium. Great sportsmanship Mr. Wilson!
I also watched the female speed skaters and while I don’t love the Canadian team’s uniform (why oh why must it look like some weird S&M strappy get-up with saran wrap shorts over the uniform?), I love all three ladies on our team. Congratulations to Kristina Groves for getting bronze in the 3000m. Martina Sablikova was fierce though; it’s easy to see why she is a favorite.
Anyway, go Team Canada!
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