Had a fun celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Water Village tonight. Like the name suggests, it is a celebration of the mid-point of autumn according to the lunar calendar. It's also known as the moon festival since that's when the moon is the fullest, hence the eponymous moon cakes that are made especially for the ocassion. For kids, it's kind of like Hallowe'en and Christmas rolled into one: they dress up and get lots of candy, and they get lots of toys too. Not a bad deal.
Hannah and Allison had a great time, but faded fast at 7:30 pm. They're feeling more and more at home here in Hanoi. The house is cleaned up and set up to just about how we want it. On Monday, they'll start homeschool and Tuesday will go to Ohana, their Vietnamese kindergarden (they had a great reunion with their former teachers when we went to enroll them last week). Things have been going well. - sc
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