Chinese New Year Spectacular

Another cold day outside, so we stayed inside again. It's like we've spent January hibernating indoors! Between getting sick and simply having nothing to do outside, it has been one of those months where you sort of feel forced to stay in the house all the time. Fortunately, Daddy finished up a big chunk of his work today finishing the sermons for the "Wonderland" series, while Mommy and Madison spent the day cleaning up the house a bit.

Tonight, we got cultural again by plugging in a DVD of NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular. It was a show we went to about three years ago when it came to Atlanta. We actually saw it over a year before going to China, though at the time we thought we'd be going there much sooner. After the performance, we bought a DVD of the show, which happened to be from the previous year.

In other words, the DVD we have was made the year Madison was born, in 2006.

Tonight, together we popped some popcorn and snuggled in bed again to watch the special. It was filmed in New York, and has a lot of different dances, orchestrations and performances. Madison was for the most part really paying attention to what it was she was seeing. This sort of surprised me, as there wasn't really a plot - it is just a collection of performances.

She enjoyed the dances, and the orchestra too. Actually, we all had fun with that, playing along with our imaginary instruments. Just picture Madison trying out an imaginary trombone. Then we all turned into conductors, and that's when the giggles got crazy, as our arms were swinging about wildly. Madison was cracking up!

She wagged her finger at the naughty red dragon when it came to the stage, and applauded when the audience cheered after each performance. It was a nice time together, but the show is pretty long: Madison couldn't see it all yet. At least she got to see the lion dance, and really about two hours of it. This show was almost three hours long!

In fact, Daddy and Mommy are about to finish watching the rest of it now - the Dance of the Plum Blossoms is next...

新年快乐!