Autumn Festival at School!

OK... I have told you about the Autumn Festival here in Singapore and you have seen a lot of pictures... but you have not seen how Pierce celebrated Autumn Festival at school yet... so here it is. I did not stay with him but I did give my camera to one of the teachers and she took all of these pictures. Thank you!

Here one of the teachers is teaching the students about the full moon (the reason they are celebrating) there are about 60 kids sitting down listening and the only white kid is standing the front of the class... who is this kid... oh yeah he is mine... the things he gets away with there I will never understand... he is so spoiled.

They ate moon cake... I do not like it but it seems that Pierce does not mind it.


Here he is holding the moon cake package and the kids are looking at him.

Not sure what these are but Anooshka is putting them on his head... I thought that was cute.

See all the kids sitting and my kid is walking around.

Here is his class sitting in their class room ... not sure what they are talking about but the teacher is holding up one of the lanterns they made.

Being funny lying down... ET phone home.



Now on his belly.

Now running around.

Playing with his lantern... there are two different kinds but sorry I don't know why the difference.

They went for a walk around their school to show off their lanterns.


Looks like another great day at school.

Chinese Garden - Autumn Festival!

One night after Pierce went to bed Vivi, Grandad and I went to the Chinese Garden (lets just say that Blake was happy to stay at home and keep an eye on Pierce). Here in Singapore they are celebrating the Full Moon with an Autumn Festival.. there is alot of tradition behind it (stories, legends, etc) but one of the things they do here is celebrate with lots of color at the Chinese Garden and with lanterns. Here is the entrance.


Kind of dark but you can see my parents at the bottom with the huge stage lite up in the back. The theme for the Chinese Garden was "Hello Kitty" not sure if it changes from year to year... but not sure how it would there are so many decorations.


When we first got there you get lanterns to walk around with and they have a candle in the middle. Here we are making our lanterns.


One happy family with our "Hello Kitty" lanterns... Grandad made a good point... "you could never walk around in America with paper lanterns with a burning candle in it... there are too many lawyers"... HE HE HE (to all my lawyer friends I love you).


We watched some shows... here a lady was dancing with her doll (Blake is very pleased he stayed at home so far)... :-)




Decorations and more decorations (everywhere).


There was this little Chinese man that was making candy (suckers I guess) our of melted sugar/honey. There is a video below if you would like to watch him make this.


Video of the candy making... so cool.


We watched the Chinese Dragon's dance (and scare all of the children... just kidding).


A great shot of the bridge leading us into the Chinese Garden.


More decorations on the water. I can't wait to see what they have next year... for all of our visitors that want to see this you have to come in the month of September to see.