Chinese New Year

 Any excuse to rent a car and take a mini-road trip. I had heard of a Chinese New Year celebration taking place in Kildare Village, which is an outlet mall about one hour away. Could not pass up the opportunity to see a Chinese dragon dance.

The mall is relatively new with about 100 shops. After a great lunch at an Italian restaurant we located a number of ladies doing Chinese character writing, spun sugar characters, lantern making and beautiful face (and body) painting.













Then a troop of dancers and dragons performed for over an hour in the center court.  The last dragon attempted to eat my hat! The temperature is still pretty cool, but the sun was shining so it was a great day for an outing.

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