The Lantern Festival was on March 5th! It is on the 15th day of the lunar calendar, marking the end of the holiday. Nanjing held a lantern festival downtown at the Confucious Temple, and so of course we had to go. We went and bought paper lanterns before we went so that we would be able to light them off... But... Well... That didn't go so well.
Ya see.... the paper lanterns... *picture Tangled*... (well at least that's what WE pictured)... YEAH. NO. China doesn't do that.
Apparently that's only a Thailand thing. China just has a big carnival basically with lanterns hanging everywhere. It was still gorgeous! I mean you can never have enough pictures of Chinese lanterns, right?
Well. Being our stubborn-american-selves... We just wouldn't accept that China didn't do the paper lanterns. and we had spent TWO WHOLE DOLLARS on paper lanterns. We weren't gonna let those babies go to waste. So we found a spot by the lake, (we decided to ignore the trees near us), and we lit our lanterns! A few girls got theirs off and we watched them go up. We attracted quite a crowd, everyone was fascinated and loved watching us, and we obviously weren't getting in trouble if everyone was watching, right?
Well. My first lantern lit, andddd.... fell into the water.
So yeah. That was just great.
Luckily I had bought two. So I lit my second one, and held it and waited, and waited... And then it got windy... and it was ready to be let go. It was pulling on my hands ready to go up. It was either let it go, or have it catch on fire again from the wind! So I let it go...
Yeah. It flew into a bush. Almost caught a girl's hair on fire on it's way there.
Then the cops got called over and they told us "We don't do that in China" and they made us leave. They continued to follow us around the park for another 30 minutes or so. Obviously they didn't believe us when we said we wouldn't light them off anymore. I don't blame them I wouldn't believe us either.
So apparently I just shouldn't be allowed to light lanterns.
So we left and just walked around and looked at lanterns the rest of the night!(:
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