Chuc Mung Nam Moi

Chuc Mung Nam Moi - Happy New Year! In Vietnamese culture, the lunar new year is celebrated, and Sunday was New Year's Day. It's now the year of the Pig (there's a 12-year rotation of animals - Tiffany is a Dog, her dad is a Monkey, Grandma is a Dragon, etc.).

To celebrate, Tiffany's family got together, lots of the girls dressed up (outfits from the Vietnamese shopping center Phuoc Loc Tho), and the older generation gave money in red envelopes ("li xi") to the youngsters. Since it was Tiffany's grandmother's 80th birthday, everyone went out to eat and then went to uncle and aunt Cau Son and Di Nam's house for a surprise birthday party for Ba Noi. Tiffany's aunts Ut, Di Nam, and Ma Chau organized the whole thing and Ba Noi was really surprised! And Tiffany even got to have her favorite dessert - mint chocolate chip ice cream cake!