Kung Fu Bird Poo

Happy Chinese New Year!
We have the smallest (but oldest!) Chinatown in Canada here in Victoria, so Rebekah and I headed down there to see the parade. We thought that it started at noon, but it turned out not to start until 1:00. But we waited around and had some nice front row standing spots. As we were waiting, a kung fu bird dropped a kung fu bird poo from up high onto about 10 of us. Amazingly, it only landed on people's coats.

The entire thing was kind of a let down because we waited there at the edge of the sidewalk, then right when it started a flood of people stood in the street right in front of us and blocked our view. However, I was able to get a shot of this awesome kung fu mullet (he originally had a stick and looked like he was with a kung fu group), which I call a kung fullet:
Then finally the people started playing the drums and cymbals to wake up the lions:
Then the lions arrived and did a little dance:
The lions left to go collect the money and lettuce that stores hung in front of their door for good luck in the new year. We didn't stay to see them collect the money in the main part of Chinatown (where they started), because that was last.

($150 on that string)