We managed to get to the Chinese Lantern Festival this year.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We went early, and got some supper there.\u00c2\u00a0 Afterwards, we just walked around for a while, then caught a show.\u00c2\u00a0 The show started with some spectacular drumming.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 R like it, but only with her fingers in her ears to dull the noise.\u00c2\u00a0 Then came a dragon dance, then lots of Chinese Martial Arts demonstrations.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 R is now very enthusuastically trying to imiatae the Martial Arts that she saw, it’s pretty funny.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Once the sun went down, things were just beautiful.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a pleasantly warm evening, and the small ponds that were by the displays were so still, they acted like mirrors.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 R also had a chance to play on the big drum, which supposedly brings the drummer luck.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Here are the pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We managed to get to the Chinese Lantern Festival this year.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We went early, and got some supper there.\u00c2\u00a0 Afterwards, we just walked around for a while, then caught a show.\u00c2\u00a0 The show started with some spectacular drumming.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 R like it, but only with her fingers in her ears to dull the noise.\u00c2\u00a0 Then came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}