Celebrating Chinese New Year

Here's a picture taken at my grandmother's place when we celebrated our Reunion Dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year. The tradition of the Reunion Dinner is very much akin to Thanksgiving celebrations, where family members from all over would come back to celebrate Thanksgiving over dinner. We spent the first day of Chinese New Year visiting relatives, and showing baby Kinnon for the first time to some of them. We started the day back at my grandmother's place where I got to catch up with the rest of my cousins.

Another tradition of Chinese New Year, (other than the culinary goodies) is the giving of red packets (with cash in them). All married couples have to give out red packets, and all children get to receive them. This is Kinnon's first Chinese New Year celebrations and it was quite a joy receiving red packets (on his behalf). Of course, I think it will take some time before he understands the significance of all these.