It has been awhile since I have made an entry to this blog and I apologies about that but a number of things have been happening since the last post.
First, I took a trip to China which was incredibale. The country is amazig and the people so friendly, I enjoyed the entire experience. I have to also add that I think I may have had two of the best meals I have had in my life. The trip lasted for three weeks, it was just a tour, not business but coincidentally there where two major celebrations that took place while I was there. I wish I could say that I had planned for this but did not even know they would be going on while I was there. They where the 60th anniversiry of the founding of new China, October 1st, and the Moon Cake festival, October 3rd.
<Edit November 3, 2009 - I did not realize that this was posted intimidately, still learning this new platform>
During the time I was there I was told that the 60th anniversary was very important since the combination of both the animal and elements of the zodiac. There are twelve animals and five elements that both change every year, so it take 60 years for the two to be the same again. I was even told that one does not actually a birthday till they are 60 but will celebrate the anniversary of their birth. The country does hold a very large celebration every ten years but this was by far the largest of the celebrations. Not only is there a huge and I do mean huge parade in Beijing between Tienanmen Square and the Forbidden City but every where we went through out the country we saw red lanterns hung in celebration. In addition the Chinese flag were hung every where and I do mean every where, it seemed as if every home had one flying and there was a field of what had to be over 100 in front of a building (unfortunately I did not get a picture of that as we where driving by on the bus). Also it seemed any where that could hold a plant had a display that showed off the anniversary.