Asian Festival 2009

After the wedding reception on Saturday we drove out to Reston to check out the Asian Festival. This year's country was India, but next year the Philippines will be showcased and we're really excited.

True to any Asian festival, they had lots of goods to buy...

{I really want to buy our future baby girl a cute Korean dress}

{I am also going to buy our future baby a dumpling plush because it is so cute}

...and lots of food, most of it appetizing.

We took lots of pictures of the Filipino section:

{doesn't Albert look festive?}

Filipino fruit carving

I was fascinated by the Spanish Morione masks in the top left-hand corner {apparently Spanish colonists wear them in a passion play during lent} . Albert had motorcycle like the top right he got on a trip to the Philippines that broke before he got it home.

Next door to the Philippines and Thailand they had a section on Tibet.

They even had Tibetan music, dancing, and singing, which we had never seen before. While their costumes are great, their dancing and singing were boring and lasted a really long time.

Next they brought out the Chinese American beauty queens. The first one put on a magic show which was unimpressive -- just stuff you can buy at any magic store, but the last two performed really nice cultural dances.

They had the cutest little Chinese girls do a dance where they twirled scarves on their fingers.

{I love the pic of the little girl playing on the cell phone}