Update, finally!

Well, after many months, an engagement, and two countries visited, I've finally decided to update my blog. The last several months have been so momentous and so wonderful that I would be strained to record it in an entire book so I'm not going to even attempt to set out to do so in the context of blog. So I'm just going to start anew describing my day to day life. This past weekend was quite wonderful. Sunday, after church, Robin, Lindsey, Jamie (a coworker of Lindsey's) went to the Lotus Lantern Festival in Insadong. Its sort of an early celebration of the Buddha's birthday. He's 2,523, by the way. During the day there are tons of crafts booths. With paper flowers as far as the eyes could see, the girls were completely ecstatic. I was content to just take in the sights and sounds of the event. Making pressed flower cell phone ornaments is not really my thing. When the crafty stuff got old even for the girls, we went out for some bulgogi. For some reason we decided that the soju at that particular restuarant was better than any we had before. It was just jinro, though. After that, we went to the lantern parade which I have to tell you, is pretty darn impressive. For the greater part of two hours, thousands of paper laterns iluminating the evening sky processed along the main street near Insadong, some being in the shapes of animals or figures from Korean history. We're not talking about your average chinatown paper lantern. Some of these things are massive. There was a dragon that was easily 30 feet in length complete with licks of flame shooting from its mouth. It's an event that is definitely worth seeing. My only complaint is that 2 hours spent outside on a drizily evening is too long regardless of what kind of show is on.

Dave