We celebrated the Autumn Moon Festival yesterday and it was a full, great day.
First, we started out by going to see "Hotel Transylvania 2" ~ not really related to the moon festival, but it was a great rainy day activity...
As luck would have it, we bumped into friends Laura, Rob and Ella at the theater! Bri and Ella got to sit together and enjoy the show...
When we got home, Bri and I made our annual moon cookie recipe. It's taken a few years to get all the kinks worked out so the cookies taste exactly how we want them too. This year, it was our best batch to date!
They were so yummy and fun to make...
Doug and I also helped Briana make a video that afternoon for her cereal box book report commercial for school. It turned out so dang cute ~ but more on that in another post...
In the evening, Bri and I watched our favorite Autumn Moon Festival cartoon ~ Sawga, By The Light Of The Moon...
In my last post, I mentioned that Doug, Bri and I would be moon gazing if weather permitted. We've been lucky every single year since we started observing the moon festival. Except for this year. Clouds were everywhere and there was no way we were going to be able to see the moon in the sky this year.
We were so bummed.
What to do, what to do.
This year's harvest moon was special though. There was a rare lunar eclipse that was going to happen with the harvest moon - a type of eclipse that hadn't happened in 33 years. Now we would have been moon gazing anyway (if the weather had participated/eclipse or no eclipse) because of the moon festival (the holiday is not greatly celebrated in the U.S.). But this year, so many people were eager to see the harvest moon because of the upcoming lunar eclipse.
And thank goodness for the eclipse. There were live feeds of the moon online to watch the eclipse from the comforts of home. So, we were able to moon gaze after all via the computer!
We totally lucked out...
This is as much action of the moon that Miss B got. She needed to go to bed - she had school the next morning. It was going to be the first day back from fall break...
I stayed up and watched the live feed on my computer until 11PM EST...
What a beautiful site. It would have been cool to see the eclipse in the night sky, but I'll take what I can get!
Right before going to sleep, I peeked one more time at the feed and this is what I saw...
Another great Autumn Moon Festival is in the books. Hoping for clear skies next year. :)
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The eclipse was pretty amazing wasnt it?! I always get surprised at how quickly a year has passed from when you last made mooncakes...I must be getting old ;(
Also, Miss B looks so different in these piccies...I think its just as she is looking quite the young lady now.
Love your blog. Where did you find the cartoon? Would love to show Ri. We also watched the eclipse. Recipe please
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