We went to the Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown in DC yesterday. I was thinking it was my first ever parade, but I’ve the feeling I skipped out on a Physics lab with my lab partner back in 3rd year, and went and saw the Australian Olympic team parading through the streets after the Sydney Olympics. There was a lot more jostling on the pavement for this parade, and a lot more noise. Nearly every kid there had a box of this stuff that looked like sawdust, but made a loud exploding noise when they threw a pinch of it at the ground. If I was a chemistry geek I’d probably realise what it was. I was suprised they were allowed to have it actually, it wasn’t very stable stuff, I had my ears set ringing when a guy standing behind me had some go off in his hand (his girlfriend was unimpressed as well).
The parade itself wasn’t as long as I thought it would be, and there was no enormous dragon, although there were lots of smaller ones. The group that got the biggest cheer was the bunch of cheerleaders dancing energetically infront of the marching band.
The cutest dragon of all was this little boy though.
And these little girls were watching the parade in front of us. They had lots of people coming up and asking to take their photo, which they didn’t mind, particularly when they were offered bribes in return (Mulan stickers, candy, that sort of thing). The one with the short hair reminded me of one of my flatmates – she was just a little bit evil.
