Celebrating Tet
January 24, 2023 Hello Family and Friends, We are in the middle of Tet celebration week. Every business except essential ones have closed their doors and gone to celebrate and be with their families. Parts of the city are so quiet but where there are Pagoda’s or pretty places for pictures there are so many people! There are colorful flags, lanterns, red country flags, lots of flowers, especially orchids, yellow mums and red poinsettias. There are kumquat trees, peach trees with pink blossoms and apricot trees with yellow blossoms being sold along the streets. Homes and businesses will have some type of decoration. The poor will buy a small 1 foot tree or small twigs to display and the rich will have multiple large live trees in pots around their home and large flower arrangements of orchids inside. There were fireworks all over the city on New Year's Eve. Church attendance was pretty low because people were on their hometowns with parents and grandparents. Before Tet starts the ...