We spent our first Thanksgiving in New Orleans last week. In the years past, we had always spent our Thanksgiving in the warmth of friends and church family in Houston. I was looking back in our blog and the posting from our Thanksgiving in 2007 didn't even feel that long ago. We didn't do much in our Thanksgiving this year in New Orleans. We invited a few people from the chinese baptist church in New Orleans over to our house for lunch. Then at night, we went to see a skit performance. The skit was very well put together considering the resources available to a small church. They even rented lighting instruments for this performance. From what I understand, the chinese church in New Orleans do this every year to reach out to the chinese community here since most people work in restaurant and only get off on Thanksgiving and Christmas day.
The day after Thanksgiving, we went to invest some money in the mall like everyone else in America to help ease the economic crisis. Then we went to Westbank New Orleans to get grocery at Hong Kong market. Westbank has a large vietnamese community. We were delighted to run into a vietnamese thanksgiving celebration with lion dance and vietnamese song performance. The lion dance was fantanstic, the lion came and prance around Meredith and she can even touch the lion's head. In Houston, it will so crowded whenever there's a lion dance and there is no way we could have even got close to the lion.
The baby room at New Orleans chinese church.
Lion Dance in Westbank New Orleans, day after Thanksgiving
Meredith eating cassava (yuca) kuih. We bought this from the Vietnamese lady selling kuih muih at the lion dance performance, it taste just like the a type of kuih that you can find a typical pasar malam in Malaysia.
The baby room at New Orleans chinese church. 
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