Plenty of things to check out this weekend in the city. I started yesterday by checking out The Gates. Very neat stuff – It’s amazing they put up 7,500 of those things all over Central Park.
Then today I woke up and headed down to Chinatown for the Chinese New Year parade. It’s the year of the rooster, but I don’t think I saw any. It was all dragons.
I also learned how to figure out what day the Chinese New Year falls on (from Wikipedia):
Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, one of the traditional Chinese holidays, is celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, which falls on the day on which the second new moon after the day on which the winter solstice occurs, unless there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year.
It’s so easy!
Of course I took plenty of pictures. I put up most of the picutures on Flickr, but here’s a few of the better ones I took:
found your blog! love your shots from the day.
do you have a bike? i want to bike through the gates some night this week!
I do have a bike, but it’s packed up in AZ at the moment. And it’s pretty fancy – it would get stolen or I would be made fun of by the bike_gang members.
The plan is to ship it out when I have room for it in my new apartment (when I get one) and not have to carry it up 5 flights of stairs in a skinny hallway.
After hearing/reading about this over the weekend these are the first great pictures I have sceen of it! Thanks so much, nice to be able to get a feel for it-looks like it would have been nice to be there!
that 3rd guy all the way to the right doesn’t look like he fits in that picture at the bottom!
Sometimes it’s clear to me why people live in big cities like New York. The feeling will fade.