Chuc Mung Nam moi!! Happy New Year. In Viet Nam it is "Happy Tet"
In Vietnamese "Tet" is a word that symbolizes the connective parts of the bamboo plant. Those parts mean transition. Lunar New Year is transition to a year of new moons!!
February 14th 2010 was the first day of the New Year. It is celebrated for almost a week in Viet Nam. Restaurants and businesses of all kinds are closed down. Ho Chi Minh City becomes a ghost town...except for all of the Expats coming out of the woodwork to view the beauty of Tet.
We got to see authentic Dragon dances complete with teenagers on stilts dressed in colorful outfits dancing and tumbling to continual drum beats.
If you are Vietnamese you go to your hometown to feast and party with family. John and I along with my visiting mom, Joan went to the beach in Phan Thiet!
Joan Buratti arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on February 13th!
As anyone who lives here can tell you, flying into HCMC is like doing trapeze without a net.
My mom embraced the experience, the people and culture. I couldn't be prouder. She spent two weeks with us and wait till you see her adventures!!
Hope you enjoy every word and picture.
Tam biet for now!!
Sai gon Patti,
Peace out
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