Happy Chinese Lantern Festival Day!

Today is the Lantern Festival Day. It is the first day of the lunar year that you can see a full moon (weather permitting). To celebrate, people will eat at a round table - to symbolize the roundness of the moon - surrounded by red lanterns with lit candles inside them.

Alas, the school did nothing to celebrate this day.

I, however, went to a park where last year there were hundreds, maybe thousands of red lanterns lit up. Of course, that was last year. Apparently it was a one-time-only deal.

This, right here, is Natalya's Lantern Festival Experience '08:



Aw, can't see what you're looking at? Here, let me help you out:



No? Here you go:


Yes, that's a lantern.