Mid-Autumn Festival Weekend Highlights

This past weekend was Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival.  Traditions for the Moon Festival include grilling out with family, giving mooncakes (pastries with red bean paste, eggs, or fruit preserves inside), praying and offering sacrifices at the local temples, and gazing at the full moon.  The weather turned out to be great!

We did grill out, but we didn't see much of the moon and we passed on the mooncakes this year.  Here are some pictures from the relaxing weekend.  Captions are below.

1) Pumpkin caramel cookies for a coffeehouse night we had at our church 2) Walked through Da An Park  3) Planted some lavender seeds  4/5)  Repotted some plants on our patio 6) Weekend Flower Market - one of our favorite places to go on the weekends 7) diaper laundry drying - we did a lot of laundry this weekend!

Someday Kevin will blog about how we got to Da An Park and the Flower Market.  Usually we walk there, but now we have another option as a mode of transportation.

Here's Ruby with her stuffed animal friends.  She cracks up when we make the sheep, duck, and moose noises.  What do ladybugs and salamanders sound like?  We're not sure here.

And finally, here's a short clip of Ruby "dancing" to the techno music at the coffee house. I hope the video works; I've never posted one before.  She had us laughing!