Asian Art Museum and Nouruz Festivities

This weekend we celebrated a bunch of things.  On Saturday, we checked out the Asian Art Museum to see the Terra cotta Soldiers exhibit.  It was fascinating and Kai Loved seeing the large life sized Horses.  He pointed them out to everyone who entered.  

We specifically targeted the Museum this day as they also had some Persian New Year activities (Nowruz).  We enjoyed a silly Rumi show (while Kai slept) and then took Kai to the activity room to build a haft-seen.  For Nowruz, it is common to decorate a table scape with 7 items beginning with the letter S. Here the museum had a everything set up to allow Kai to build one for Home.  The most common and the ones Kai used were as follows:

1. Mirror - symbolizes Sky
2. Sabzeh (Wheat) - symbolizing Plants
3. Sir (garlic) - symbolizing medicine
4. Somaq - symbolizing sunrise (color of)
5. Serkeh (vinegar) - symbolizing old-age and patience
6. Senjed (dried fruit) - symbolising love
7. Sekkeh (coin) - symbolizing wealth and prosperity