lantern festival 2013

This year, the mid-autumn/ Mooncake/ lantern festival fell on the 19th of September. The kids had a great time playing with lanterns, especially flying lanterns, which is the new fad now.

The weekend before, all the kids went to Mei e e's house to hang lanterns all around the garden. Then they went for a short lantern parade walk round the block.

The kids were very excited when daddy released a few flying lanterns!

Then on the actual day, Mei e e and kids came over to the condo. The condo is just behind the Friendship Park, and every year, the park is packed with people playing lanterns. 

So when the wind blew to our direction, the hundreds of flying lanterns would float our way! It was a beautiful sight indeed! Even though there was school the next day, the kids were so excited they could not sleep until almost midnight! They went down to pick lanterns which had crash landed on our compound. Most of them had wishes written on them!

The next morning, flying lanterns were littered everywhere, even in the swimming pool! We also spotted plenty along the road, and on rooftops, on the way to school.