Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year

For Valentine's day this year we decided to venture out with some good friends into China Town in Yokohama, Japan. We stopped for lunch at a fabulous Brazilian BBQ place. All you can eat and drink for 2 hours. Needless to say, we left stuffed! We left the restaurant just in time to catch the 4:00 Chinese New Year parade. It was unbelievably crowded! We could not move an inch. The parade featured a dragon that would approach buildings where people had food hanging from a string to lour the dragon in. The dragon would then jump up to get the food. Madelyn was such a trooper the entire trip. I think she was too fascinated with all the people and interesting things to look at to think about anything else!