Day 33: At Sunset

So I already posted one picture from the plaza of the Cheonggyecheon (or however the hell you romanize this), but the other day I was walking around and something about this scene, with the sun in the background like that (around 6.30pm), hit me and caused me to just stand there, on the bridge, for about 20 minutes. Go figure that next to me there was a Korean couple, being all romantic (insert gag sound right about here). But anyway, I also liked the picture because of the paper lanterns hanging across the stream, as they are hanging throughout much of the city. Next weekend is Buddha's birthday, and you know what that means: three day weekend! But festivities, at least paper lantern hanging, start a full month before the actual birthday. Man, no one has ever gotten so much fanfare besides Jesus. Now if we can only convince the world to turn Buddha's birthday into a massive consumer holiday with a tree, socks, an obese white man, and presents. I think that's a fight worth having!