Chinese New Year in Pekanbaru

Brooklyn dresses in her traditional dress along with jeans to ward off the mosquitoes.

Kade practices his drum skills.

There is a significant Chinese population in Pekanbaru. This means that Chinese New Year is celebrated here by a few days of ceremonies and parades. On Wednesday we decided to head into town to take it in. We went to China Town to see what was there for us. We found an area that was celebrating. There were hanging lanterns as well as traditional drums and statues there for all to see. We made sure we dressed in red for the event. It was very neat to see all of the people out celebrating. The people there told us that the next day there was going to be parades and ceremonies all day. Unfortunately we had school so we couldn't make it back. Still the kids had a good time and we got to see some cool things.