As you probably guessed by the title, I'm going to show you one of my favourite days of the year. Chinese Lantern Day!
This is actually a family tradition. Each year we go to the Chinese Lantern Festival at the Montreal Botanical Gardens. Last CLD (Chinese Lantern Day) was the first time my great grand-mother went to the festival. Oddly enough, she lives in the same city that CLD is held.
Last years CLD was very cool since they added new lanterns. Before I talk about the lanterns I must tell you about the greenhouses. It was even cooler since on CLD they put coloured lights around the greenhouses. Now that thats out of the way let's move on to the lanterns. The lanterns are held in the Botanical Garden and it was in the Chinese section. We arrived there at about 6 or 7 o clock. since it wasn't time for the lanterns yet we went to go check out the greenhouses.
Then we finally went to the lanterns. My grand-mother was amazed by all the colours. Basically, there are 2 areas to explore. There's an area where there are chineses buildings (pagodas) with an overview of the lake lanterns, and there's an area near a waterfall on a mountain with the other lanterns. If you want to make lanterns for yourself check out this link: Chinese Lanterns
I felt outstandingly happy to be there once again, and I'm really excited for the next one.
Hope you liked this short presentation on Chinese Lantern Day.
Bye!