Every last week of February, the Lantern Festival is held at the Albert Park in front of the University of Auckland where people of all sorts of nationalities, mostly Asians (speaking of Chinese), gather and celebrate this day-long event. There were a few entertainment during the day; and come dusk, the lanterns got lightened. Speaking of the festival per se, I found it pretty, uhm, boring this year — unsurprisingly, no new lanterns were introduced. But honestly, I think people came here solely for the food — and fireworks, of course!

Anyways, we got to buy those animal hats or whatever you call those monkey and panda faux-fur caps with ear flaps.

-O