Today is New Years Eve. A big pre holiday here in Asia. Lunar New Year is kind of what would happen if you mixed Thanksgiving with New Years Day, a folk festival and any family oriented religous holiday of your choice. How crazy is Team Matvey?
Well there is a New Years Fair at Victoria Park. So I decided it would be a fun adventure to go with Nicholas and Maggie. Fun yes. Crazy yes. Now if you can imagine a NewYork Summer Street fair but 4 times the amount people and add and subtract an ebedding and flowing variable group of 1000 people, you come close to how many people were there.
So it was Nicholas in the stroller, Maggie tightly behind the stroller and in front of me and me at the end pushing my way through this mass of people, apparently stopping and creating huge bottlenecks at every stand that seemed to be giving away free stuff. Maggie "arms in arms in Daddy" Matvey did great. She got a festive pinwheel and we picked up flowers.
Where the whole system started to fall apart was meeting up with Katy which meant traveling away from the Fair stroller and 2 kids in hand against this mass of people headed to the Fair. Then trying to navigate the subway, again against the mass of people headed to the fair. (Did I mention this was the last night of the Fair.) We ended up in Wan Chai, our new neighborhood for dinner at Fat Angelo's: an Italian restaurant which as it was empty since the tradition is to have dinner with your family on Chinese New Year Eve conjuered up a funny thought: so if in the US non christians go to Chinese restaurants on Christmas Day for dinner, do Americans in Hong Kong go to Fat Angelos on Chinese New Year Eve?
This is though one of the first times in a while I am seen a truly tired look on Maggie's face.
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