New Year's Eve -- Dinner with the Family

We went out to Mom's for the big Chinese New Year Eve dinner. As a tradition, you must have leftovers from the New Year's Eve dinner so that you won't starve in the following year. Mom made more than we could eat: deep-fried sweet rice cake as appetizer, chicken, sweet n sour yellow fish, ginger garlic prawns, stir-fried Chinese broccoli, Chinese sausages with leek, stir-fried rice cake with spinach, dried fish roe with daikon radish, and stir-fried garlic shoots.

The First Day of CNY -- Get up Early and Go to the Temple

We were up early and planned to go to a temple. We ended up staying home all day because "the visitor" arrived and I was thus forbidden to go to the temple. Dorion came over later in the afternoon and made yummy burritos for dinner. He and Bill played Wii for 6 hours afterward (yes, SIX hours of Wii).

The Second Day of CNY -- Married Daughters Return Home

The only family my mom has left is my great uncle's family. My great uncle is 75 years old and his three children are 4, 6, and 10 years older than me. When I was growing up, we went to my great uncle's house every year. There were 11 people there this year: great uncle and great aunt, their three children and a grandson, my mom and uncle, Bill and me, and my mom's younger cousin. That is probably the greatest number of family members of mine to have been gathered in one place as far as I can remember. Bill wondered how I'd feel if I spent X'mas with his family. He said it could easily be 35 people in one house.

The Third Day of CNY -- Sleep in

We did.
Did a load of laundry, got 2 movies, and just chilling now.
We're going out for dinner later. Apparently at Citizen Cain, everyone born in the Year of the Rat can get a dinner special for FREE! Can't say no to a free meal.