Happy Chinese New Year!

The Chinese New Year has come and gone. The entire island has decorations sprinkled throughout it, but China Town is beautiful. I hope you enjoyed it - if you celebrated it. This was my first year to do anything related to it. We went to China Town, our favorite place to go:





However, we do not enjoy it so much during the New Year. It was very crowded.





We found some back streets and wandered randomly around enjoying the sights. I love the Chinese Lanterns that are throughout the area:








I look at the colors here and know my mom would have loved them. Cherry red was always her favorite color. We hated it - and now I am not sure why. It is very pretty to me - even seeing it every day. I hope mom is watching and listening. No, mom, I am not wearing it 24/7 but it is ok that you did now ;-)





Not sure if I took the above picture for the lanterns or for the electrical issues... lol...


There are random places of incense all over the island. It is pretty interesting to see. It is to help keep evil spirits away - and believe me when I say it is everywhere:







Nighttime is also beautiful. I wish I had gotten a really nice picture to share. I haven't figured the camera carrying out yet: camera, tripod, lenses, filters, cleaning cloths, remotes... whatever else you need. I never have it all and never have what I need when I have anything at all.





Anyway it is all finely winding down. Today the island is quiet - at least here in the condo. Steve took off as it is a holiday here. We have both been doing our own thing; him working (ha!) and me lollygagging.


We talked a bit about our experiences here in Singapore a few days ago. Both agree we are too far away from home, but the next breath was -we are going to miss so many things once we leave. We have fallen in love with parts of the island - specifically the nature, beauty, and people. Home is where our heart is, but we are embracing Singapore and soaking in all we can while we have the opportunity.


God is good. Happy Chinese New Year!