Happy New Year!
Yesterday Jacksonville held many Chinese New Year festivities. There is a rich history of Chinese immigrants here, especially during the gold mining years of the 1850s. It's also a great holiday to throw a parade. This is Year of the Dog so it was a great big dog parade. We took a new friend from the VA, just moved here from Miami, so showed Eric some little town bling. Every shopfront has sported silk Chinese lanterns for over a week. The downtown roads (all 3 of them) were blocked Saturday morning for the parade. After the 30 min cavalcade of dogs were the marching or dancing local clubs as diverse as ROTC and K-9 rescue units to Belles and Beaus (period costumes) and antique cars. Afterwards there were booths in the park for Smooch a Pooch (Dog kissing booth) and professional dog portraits. My favorite were the dancing dog dragons - see my awesome 5 second video on youtube: https://youtu.be/4AHs88fdBoM okay, not that awesome.
Last weekend, when we were out hiking the hills, we came across several signs of old China town, some signs historic (see below) and some enigmatic (see farthest below.)
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