Next day was the celebration of Jane's birthday and so we had bloody Mary's before the bread and potato sticks came along with a salad and my pasta. Somehow, I forgot to record the chicken which took an hour to cook and was remarkable. Maybe because I was decorating the tablecloth as dessert came for Jane's birthday. After making our way around town, we discovered that the Asian New Year's parade was happening and so we gathered and watched the police start to control the crowd as we waited for the clock to reach 5:30 but crowds gather to be controlled so that I was made a junior officer before the parade came marching down the street with flags, dragons and people, young and old as I have recorded here

along with the Jesus crowd as the parade continued

until the crecycling group arrived and we realized that our feet had endured as much as they could and so we bid farewell to the parade and sadly to our vacation.