Happy Lunar New Year! 新年快乐！

Happy Lunar New Year! This is the Year of the Ox. I'm still wondering why there is no year of the bear in the Chinese calendar. Hmm, that doesn't seem right.

Anyways, I'll look into that later! To celebrate, I am eating hot pot tonight.

Look at this delicious boiling hot pot of goodies, which include cabbage, fish balls, shrimp, corn, and assorted meats.

There are usually a lot of Lunar New Year festivities going on, such as watching a parade and dragon dance, but we did not do any of those this year. However, I did get a special treat for New Year.

Do you know what that was?

If you said "red envelope" or "hong bao", you guessed it!

Every new year, humans give stuffies red envelopes with money inside. It's good to be a stuffie, isn't it?

Happy Lunar New Year! 新年快乐！

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I wish everyone a Beary Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year & book giveaway

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Best wishes for 2017!

Let's start off 2017 with a book giveaway! I am giving away this book right here. It's called A Walk in the Woods. I have not read this book so I can't really review it, but it must be a good book because there is a picture of a bear on the cover, right?

To enter this giveaway:
1) Comment on this post with a) your favorite memory of 2016 and b) something you hope to do in 2017.
2) You can also email your entry to ajdinthebosnianbear (at) gmail (dot) com.
2) Entries must be received by January 14, 2017 at 11:59 pm EST.
3) A winner will be randomly chosen.
4) Good luck!

Holiday prep

"Hey! We have work to do!" I called out to my friends.

"Huh?"

"Uncle Tibbs, you can set up the Christmas tree! Miss Feathers, you can help Parker with the decorations! Ooogie, you can open the Christmas cards we received!"

"And what will you do?" they asked.

"I will supervise!" I said.

"Great job! It looks great!"

Thanks for all the holiday cards everyone! We received cards from Little Fox, Jerry & Ben, Fritzel, Beanie, and Droopy!