The Mid-Autumn Festival, otherwise known as the moon festival, was on Sept. 22. Hopefully as Lexie gets older, we can celebrate this holiday and create some family traditions. I read that in Taiwan, many families barbecue outdoors as part of the holiday and that's something Eric likes to do. There are other things like making lanterns, admiring the full moon, planting trees and eating moon cakes.
We went to Chinatown and bought a mini-moon cake for Lexie.
It had black sugar in it. Lexie liked holding it, but didn't quite enjoy the taste of it. It reminded me of a Japanese manju.
Lexie enjoyed squeezing it. Oh, well, maybe next year, she'll like eating it.
While we were walking around in Chinatown, we came across this statue of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. He went to school in Hawaii when he was 13. He was considered the founding father of the Republic of China, which is now Taiwan, where Lexie was born. It's nice to know that Hawaii and Taiwan have this connection.
Here is Lexie in front of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial. Can't believe that it's been almost one year. Time sure flies.
I think you celebrated in a perfectly lovely way and I think its exciting for us all to watch these traditions grow right along with our babies!!!
ReplyDeleteThat tiny cake was precious and at least she was interested in it!! :)
I had no idea about Dr. San Yat-Sen....I'm intrigued and plan to study up on this!! Thank you for sharing this tidbit!!!
Almost one year home? Oh gosh....what a big milestone coming for your family!!
Hi Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you found a statue of Dr. San Yat Sen in Hawaii. That's amazing! Please share any info/interesting history. We are constantly trying to educate ourselves about Taiwan.
I love looking at all the new pictures of your family!
from your friend on Okinawa,
Catherine