Feb. 3rd is Setsubun. Did you do Mamemaki? Did you eat special rice roll?? I totally forgot about it and did nothing special.
Here in Vietnam, 7th is the new years day as Chinese carender. They are busy doing new year's shopping and heavy traffic jam. They decorate peach tree and kumquat(きんかん) in the entrance hall.
By the way, my sister and nephew came to hanoi for 10days. We went to Bangkok. Because it's cloudy and cold in hanoi. It was hot in Bangkok, we enjoyed shopping!!
I haven't seen the sun more than 1month, in Hanoi. But finally there is!! I'm so happy to see it again and want to tell everyone how I feel now. I hope spring? summer? will come soon.