Chúc Mùng Nâm Mói!
That’s the big joyful new year’s greeting for Têt, the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring — as per the lunar calendar. The new year does not officially arrive until February 5th but some members of the Vietnamese community in Vancouver got an early start on the festivities!
As we have friends with children whose birthplace was far across the ocean, we’ve often and unabashedly barged our way into Party Central. Now they can’t help but invite us, knowing we’ll turn up anyway.
Our lovely Mai happened to be in from Toronto for the weekend!
For the first time in Vancouver, the community paraded down Kingsway in East Vancouver, headed by dragon dancers and a phalanx of martial artists, spotted by politicians of every stripe and hierarchy, and culminating in a small vehicle sporting big cutouts of Japan’s darling feline.
That Kitty. She knows how to have fun!
Everyone loves a parade!
The Country Mice 
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