Fancy Zoe dancing at the work Chinese New Year Party. If you have not experienced Chinese New Year before, it is over the top. Imagine all of the fuss around Christmas, and then put a Chinese spin on it and you will be close. Businesses are closed for like 2 weeks. Cabs are almost impossible to get, because everyone that was out of town comes in, and everyone from in-town leaves. Hotels in all the favorite vacation spots are booked. Children are given red envelopes with outrageous sums of money and new clothes to wear. People buy fireworks and every night since Sat. (New Years Eve) they have been setting them off. It is a war zone designed to scare off any evil spirits and impress your neighbor next door. The decorations of red lanterns and special red-rope knots for luck are every where.