We made a last minute decision and went to LA to celebrate Chinese New Year with the family. Big Uncle drove down with us too. It was a fun and quick visit.

On Saturday morning, we met Grandma and Auntie Vickie in Chinatown. Grandma was heading over there to pray and asked us to join her. While we were there, we got to see a lion dance and two firecracker shows. They were very loud!

While waiting for Grandma, we walked around Chinatown and Nat bought this Chinese dress and quickly changed.

In the evening, we had a nice hot pot dinner at Po Po’s house

3 generations of China dolls

On Sunday morning, we met with David’s family for dim sum. Party of 21 please! We had to split up between two tables. While we were waiting for our food and chatting, I got a message on my cell phone with the news of Kobe Bryant’s passing. I passed my phone to David to not make a scene and the news started to spread around our tables. We were all so shocked.

After dim sum, we headed back to Grandma’s house for a surprise (early) birthday celebration for David.