When Pat, Taylor, and I were driving to the international festival for the last day we were getting ready for the lion dance! we wanted to make sure we would have plenty of time to get there and go over the dance so we left campus 40 mins early, thinking we would have plenty of time.. we were so wrong! Naturally there would be a marathon going through the streets around campus, so we tried a few different routes and eventually got stuck in front of Ross, as runners went by there were little gaps were cars could actually get through. After sitting there for about 10 mins we were moving again, since we left early we still had plenty of time! Until we got onto the next street, there was traffic as far as the eye could see! You wouldn’t believe it! As time was passing and we were actually sitting going zero miles per hour, we wondered if we were going to make it to the festival in time! I had to call kwan to let him know we were stuck in traffic because at the rate we were moving we were going to miss the lion dance! The festival was around 2.5 miles from campus, and it ended up taking us a little under an hour to get there!! We could have walked there faster! When we finally got into the festival we were shocked to see that the parade was going on, which was supposed to have happened in the morning. We got to watch the group walk around in the lion costume and wave the flags!
Later we found out that they moved the parade later in the day because there weren’t a lot of people, so the lion dance didn’t end up happening! So thankfully we didn’t miss much!