At the beginning of October, Noah, Zoe, and I went to a celebration at a local Vietnamese Buddhist temple for Tet Trung Thu (the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival). What’s even worse than the fact that I am posting these more than five weeks later is that we went with Kelli and Aiden, and Kelli posted hers the night of the event!
The temple itself is beautiful. There had been a very small temple there for some time, but they built this one new one about a year ago. It’s really pretty impressive that this temple is in the middle of our midwestern city. I think there are about eight Vietnamese Buddhist nuns who live there. I didn’t get any great pictures of the temple, but some day (in my spare time, right?) I’d like to go back and take some.
Anyway, the program that night was for kids. We sang some songs in English and Vietnamese, had a Vietnamese meal, had a lantern procession, released lotus blossom candles into the water, watched a play, and had a dragon dance.
All of the kids outside the temple:
Two of the nuns:
The dragon dance:
One of the sisters banging the gong during the dragon dance:
Noah and Zoe during the procession with the lotus blossom candles:
Releasing the candles into the water:
Chloe and Zoe during the lantern procession (Chloe is just a couple of months younger than Zoe and is from the same province in Vietnam):
Zoe in front of a stone pillar with a map of Vietnam:
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Let’s see….I have 1 child, you have 3. I knew if I didn’t post them that night they would never get posted! Great pics though. Already looking forward to next year!