Sunday, May 3, 2009

Happy Birthday Buddha

Buddha's birthday is actually today, (May 2nd) but the celebration for him was last Sunday. The big celebration was a lantern parade. I missed it last year and almost missed it again. My friend Nate and I rushed out to Seoul after his dart tournament only to see that we had missed it all.... conceding to defeat we took off for dinner and what do you know, we caught part of the parade. Now the thing started at 7 and it was well past 9 by the time we caught up with it, but I got a good thirty minutes of lanterns, people and floats..... Plenty for me and I was partly happy I didn't show up earlier!


The birthday boy himself


Looks like he got a helicopter


These women ARE lotus lanterns


Monks celebrating


Drum woman


And America has pimp my car...I would much prefer to have my car lotused!

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