Happy Year Of The Goat!!

Traditional is becoming more and more international!!

Prove of that is the fact that here, in Portugal (a country that has a huge amout of Chinese people living in it, we must add), there was an entire week of celebrations dedicated to the Chinese New Year!!

We got to go and watch some of the activities, and so we decided to share them with you all!

It's amazing how much we can learn from different cultures and how beautiful it is to see traditions being mixed and matched, creating a new thing all together!

Here are some of the photos, enjoy:

Selfie with Starbucks waiting for the start of the celebrations - DONE!

FOOD!!!!

Ella trying to write in Chinese (NOT EASY!!)

Cate's try! (Confirmed... NOT easy!!!)

LOOK!! haha

So beautiful!!

Portuguese women doing a traditional Chinese dance - wish the photo had came out better!! Sorry you guys!!

Ella learning some Kung Fu (My pulse still hurts!!), and Cate taking a selfie while Ella is learning Kung Fu... (What else was I supposed to do? Right?!?).

Photos from the parade, featuring a lion with two pairs of sneakers, a paper dragon, an acrobat standing JUST on a wheel (How the f does he do that????), two other acrobats (aka hot asian dudes, in Ella's words... I like asians, k??), a Chinese version of a clown, and much much more we wish we could show you, but that'd take up the entire post!

The presentations were amazing!! Here are just two photos that don't, in any way, reflect how BEAUTIFUL and BRILLIANT (and dangerous!!) some of them were! But it's what we were able to catch (there were sooo many people there, it was super hard to get a decent view!).

And the ending photo!!

We had so much fun at the celebrations, watching all the amazing artists, eating all the yummy food and just being in the middle of such a big mix of cultures, people and art!

It was a great time and we hope we get to see and do more things like this, and share them with you (of course!!).

The Year of the Goat is expect to be filled with harmony, hope and greatness. But the only way that's going to happen, is if we work for it!!

So let's do it!! TOGETHER!!

Xoxo,

Ella and Cate

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