Well lets try and start the new year off with some happy pictures. Here are some stuff I came across today from online....

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone!!!

- Chol

The Ghost Riders performed during Friday's rodeo at the Show Me Center. The team is made up of three monkeys atop three border collies that herd sheep into a small corral.

Orphaned squirrel monkey Loki clings to his toy duck at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2006. Loki, who lost his mother shortly after birth eight weeks ago, has been hand raised by zoo staff and will be introduced to the rest of the Squirrel Monkey's when once he is weaned and learns to regulate his body temperature.

I don't remember where I got this from but it was just too cute to pass up.

A Chinese girl shows a mandarin to an orang-utan at a zoo in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, January 2, 2006. Many children, led by their parents, visited the zoo to celebrate the new year, sources said. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Newsphoto