FCC Atlanta Spring Festival

Tonight, we traveled down to Atlanta to visit the FCC's Spring Festival, a nice gathering of many families with children from China in the North Georgia area. There was plenty of food - too much of it, really. It was good, and so was the dancing.

Chinese girls of all ages performed on stage for everyone, dressed in traditional outfits from various regions of China, from Tibet to Guangzhi. There were tables covered with Chinese books and toys and crafts, and even an older gentlemen who spent his time writing in Chinese everyone's names inside a free book we got at the door. He wrote Madison's Chinese name Mei Yang, and also wrote it on a bookmark for us as well.

Madison was thrilled tonight. We were all dressed up in our traditional outfits and the girls looked so cute dressed up as well. Madison wore her hat again - we officially have gotten our money's worth out of that thing!

One great surprise was that Hannah and Aunt Shain were able to come along with us! Shain got Hannah a very nice outfit as well. It was rose in color, and looked like it could be worn for any special occasion. Hannah seemed to have a good time - she got these stuffed panda dolls, and even got to help in a Tai Chi demonstration on stage. Take a look!

As Hannah performed on stage, Madison spent a lot of her time running around the place meeting new friends. Madison is not shy at all! She immediately started having fun with all the other children there, at times just running loose and exploring far from Mommy and Daddy, which made us a little nervous. She made lots of friends very easily though - she's definitely not shy at all.

She spent a lot of time running around, holding hands with her new friends, running in circles - and all falling down. Madison could have done this all night long and never left. In fact, it was pretty difficult to get her to return to our table to finish eating!

Anyway, it was a wonderful time tonight, but we did have to leave a little early. The time change tonight makes it so we have to get up an hour earlier tomorrow morning, and Sunday is always a big day for us anyway. But we were there about three and a half hours - and every moment was worth it to see Madison having such a good time.