Not only is 5 May Cinco Di Myo and my nephew Daniel's bithday, Happy Birthday Danny boy!! (Not that he ever reads this.) It is also Children's day in Korea! Now, when they do Children's day here, they do it right! It is a 'real' holiday!! No work, no school, and this city is chalked full of kid style activities from festivals, concerts, baseball games and more! I got this quote from this website....
"Children's day is the day of children. Children are the future of the nation and they are the most valuable person for their parents. This is the day we think about children deeply, we think about their needs and future."
....so we take them out, feed them candy, give them gifts and let them do anything (within reason) they want to do on this day! I LOVE children's day! This is another holiday our kids would like to bring to the states. I can't blame them. Our kids didn't even get the full effect of children's day since they go to school on this 'American' post, they still had to attend class, however all 3 of them got to have field day, even Boy 1 who is in 7th grade got to celebrate field day since he is in the Korean foregin language class. Nice.
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