Happy New Year China

Chinese New Year....well, I'm just calling it a redo-for my NYE 2010 night where I passed out somewhere around 10:30pm-2am...ya I COMPLETELY missed the midnight kiss opportunity, apparently I'm an amateur. So yesterday, there was this huge festival that was centered around Trafalgar Square and a parade walk through Leicester Square into China Town. So Jenna, Jenna's sister, Erika and I braved the crowds to see the festivities.

We started down by Westminster Abby, first grabbing our coffee's, cuz, HELLO, then making our way up to Trafalgar. The weather held up, it was surprisingly nice. We had some light rain, not heavy enough to warrant an umbrella, and the sun kept peaking out through the clouds. It was "nice" and hanging out in the 40's temperature wise. Once we got into Trafalgar, the crowds doubled. There was a huge stage setup at the base of the Lions, with traditional Chinese dancers, the square was lined with tents selling mainly beer (welcome to London). As we made our way into Leicester, we were half interested in the festivities, half interested in food and wholly interested in sitting. I was so beat by then. So we walked into china town about 2 feet, and then got overwhelmed with people before ducking into Waxy O'Conner's. We originally were planning on just having a drink and talking about options of places to go after we sat for a few. Well, then we ordered food, then we decided to see of there was a game on at Sports. At Sports we grabbed dinner, and watched ManU vs Liverpool. Then we headed over to O'Neils. We chilled at O'Neils for a couple drinks before heading over to a pub in Barbican called the Shakespeare. Needless to say we caused a bit of a scene in the tube (go figure) and pretty much everywhere we went. It was a great time, who knew that Chinese New Year would constitute multiple Irish pubs and way too much cider? So thank you China for having a new year.