LotusLeaf Tai Chi

Gung Hei Fat Choi or Happy New Year!  It’s now the Year of the Tiger until February 2nd 2011.

We had a wonderful meal at The Dragon’s Den in Monmouth with 12 people coming.  The restaurant if full of lovely carved objects and even the chairs and tables were carved with Dragons and other such creatures.  The food was so well presented it was almost too good to eat (almost, but we all managed to ruin the look!) Thank you to The Dragon’s Den for such a beautiful and tasty time.

Then on 21st February in Saint Mary Street, Chepstow, outside of another lovely Restaurant -The Shangri-La- Yi Quin Martial Arts and Lion Dance group performed a mesmerizing dance down the street.  Ocean and I got great views, on particular close look when the silver lion came and ‘nuzzled’ Ocean in the middle of the dance!  I have never seen his eyes so wide!

It is a great privilege to have such cultural things in the local area.  I can not advise strongly enough to take advantage of these events and go see them.

Talking of Lion Dances, as I have mentioned to most of my students, I found this amazing video of a Malaysian Lion Dance which is well worth looking at.