Riverside Lunar New Years!

Oanh and I caught a lion!

How was everyone's lunar new year? Sexy? I hope so. Last week a few friends and I attended the 1st annual Riverside Lunar New Years celebration downtown Riverside on Mission Inn. St. The street was closed down for the 1st ever new years celebration. The year of the rabbit is now upon us. Some famous rabbits that we all know are Allen Ruiz, the Tu twins Michael and Steven, and Albert Einstein. Less famous ones such as Tiger Woods and Whitney Houston are also rabbits of the chocolate kind. Not the good kind of chocolate. The last year's Halloween chocolate kind.

I was surprised people showed up.

 The main section of the celebration was held in front of the Riverside Library. They had performances such as little children doing Bollywood performances, traditional Japanese dancing and also martial arts exhibitions. I enjoyed watching the little Indian children dancing to the dance songs of Bollywood with my friend Sam. I especially enjoyed the boy who didn't really know all the moves or he was just stage shy. Either way it made the performance better.

For some strange reason Sam had never tried takoyaki. The delicious molten lava hot octopus balls. So of course Sam had to try some for the first time. He wondered why it was still soft in the middle, but that is how it is suppose to be. The takoyaki was 7 balls for $5. Most of his balls were not inflated. Sam had gotten sad octopus balls.

Here this Japanese surfer man is making them.

I wished they had more food stands then just the  five or six they had, but as the first festival it still was a good start. They also had Hawaiian sausages. They were only called it Hawaiian because I assume it had pineapples, which it did. Who do we all know that loves sausages AND Hawaiian? our resident tan man Dustin. Who will pay 9 dollars for a sausage in a bun! 9 dollars! 9!!!! Let me catch my breath.

Of course what Lunar New Years doesn't have dancing lions! They had two yellow ones and a black one. You can guess which one I had my eye on. ::wink:: Taiko drums could also be heard, but not seen as I can see old people playing drums on youtube, and didn.t want to gather around with the other people.

This man had a good time. He got a whole plate full of food!

As the day came to a close Oanh and I ran around grabbing as much free crap as they could give out. We got so much useless crap. Except that toothbrush kit that came in handy later that night. The night ended with a display of fireworks that were a very nice end to a good day of food and friends. I assume they just hired the x-man Jubilee and had her on top of the library blasting off her powers. We all know she had nothing else to do, and any paying gig is worth it.

Of course you end the night with more food and we ate at the Spaghetti Factory. Dustin had the nerve to order the same as me. I guess he has learned if I like it then it must be good. He should of used this logic when I was not eating a $9 sausage.

"Uhh, okay. Richard I will do as you say next time"