Getting Ready for the Lunar New Year

*edit title and added the "r", just missed it! soo pptthhh*

Went with my mom this past weekend to Garden Grove/Westminster area... mainly to buy my plane ticket. But the pre-new year festivities started. Flowers for sale and illegal gambling! It's funny to watch. They would play, but once someone gives them a signal that security or police was coming, they would clean up shop! Quick too! :-P They looked at me funny when I walked by snapping photos.
I also bought firecrackers. The kind they use for the new year. 1,000 little firecrackers on one long string. :-P