Sunday April 4, in addition to Easter, was also Qingming (Tomb-Sweeping Festival). My wife's paternal grandparents are both buried at a cemetery about 20km north of us, but we knew the place would be busy on the day of the festival, and she had the day off from work today. So we bought supplies yesterday: oranges, the peanuts and sunflower seeds her grandfather loved, braided scallion steamed buns for her grandmother. We tried going to the LCBO for baijiu for her grandfather, but I'd forgotten that even if the liquor store weren't closed on an ordinary Sunday, it would certainly be closed on Easter. Nor could we find any incense or joss paper at all, even at the Chinese supermarket. Well, we decided, we'd try again on the day.

( This morning before work I steamed the buns )