This town now how to throw a party. First it is Australian Day and now Chinese New Year. The middle of Chinatown and the streets are barricaded and the crowds are excited for the parade to begin. The crowd warmer is a group of acrobats/street performers. These are guys/girls who do back flips the length of the street and then throw one another up to second floor ledges. The crowd which is of course made up of alot of tourist but mainly Asian decent. I would say Chinese but there were alot of foreign tongues around me. Met a real tall Asian named Doug who said that here are many, many different dialects of Chinese but there were also Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean and Thai in the crowd and for that matter every other nation was represented as well. This is the year of the rabbit. I'm not exactly sure what that means but the Chinese use animals for their zodiac and it is not lunar by day/month you were born rather by the year of your birth.
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| Chinese New Year Banner |
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| It's all about the Rabbit |
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| Nationality unknown |
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| Rabbit is the theme |
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| Dragons seem also to make an appearance |
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| Chinese Peace sign....I hope!! |
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| George Street was shut down all the way to mid-town. Eerie creatures roaming the street. that's me :-) |
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Samurai Light Show
The parade lasted about an hour. There were Dignitaries, Ms. MP someone or other, Pretty Asian girls with crowns, obviously the winners of some Rabbit title, bands, alot of floats depicting the other 11 Zodiac Animals, Samurai's, Judo/Tae Kwondo/saber troupes, little kids dressed in kimono's and alot of older Asian women and military men. very exciting evening topped off by the sponsors handing out rabbit fans, those blow up baseball bat sized nose makers that you see at the basketball games that the crowd is beating together to make them miss the free throw. It was out of control.
Happy New Year's Mates!
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