Our Saturdays tend to follow a standard format now that we’re back in the States. Usually, I go running while the kids watch cartoons and eat cereal, and my wife sleeps in, then it’s off to whatever sporting event is in season, and in the evening, we do some sort of family thing (event or show or dinner). This Saturday was a good one: my son’s first basketball game and our first visit to the (annual) Chinese Lantern Festival.
My son Sam plays in the local parks and rec basketball league and thinks (and acts) like Steph Curry. He’s a fearless shooter. He still has to work on that shot, but he’s not lacking in trying. They won 28 – 8 (or something like that; they don’t keep an official score, but the parents and kids try). Great start to the Saturday.
Later that day, we all got tickets to the “twilight” session for the Chinese Lantern Festival nearby in Cary, NC. It’s a huge spectacle of tens of thousands of handmade lantern displays, along with performances of traditional Chinese acrobatics and dance. It was freezing (the temperature dropped well below 40 while we were there), but we had a ton of fun checking out the displays and watching some performers.
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