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| This week we received an e-mail from our new headmaster advising us not to post any nude pictures of ourselves online, so sadly I will have to do a post about other interesting thinks happening here in Daegu... ... this weekend we had the pleasure to taking a professor from Los Angeles to see one of my favorite places, DongWhasa. We visited there last year, when R-Man used his first ever squat pot, but this year it was decked out with hundreds of paper lanterns and statues. These two jolly fellows welcomed us. |
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| The lanterns are offerings for wishes. |
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| I'm not sure of the significance of these three rocks, but they sure look cool. |
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| This is kind of an eclectic collection of paper statues: Pororo, Jesus, a serpent and a boar. Hmmm... kind of reminds me of Sesame Street... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FClGhto1vIg&feature=related |
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| Isn't this guy the cutest? |
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| This tunnel was filled with paper lanters. |
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| Pooks loves tigers, so of course I had to take a picture of this... then she decided he looked too weird. |
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| St. Elizabeth Seton might get more donations if the basket passers looked like this guy! |
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| You may recall seeing this Buddah from an earlier post, but what you did not see before is the handicapped ramp. In Korea there are ramps at most places, but they are definately not ADA approved. This ramp is, like, a 30% grade! |
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| Climbing up the tunnel. |
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| This is the road out of DongWhasa. |
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| Today we went to the IAAF World Championships Track and Field Meet at Daegu Stadium. |
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| That little cartoon guy is all over Daegu. |
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| Try to get away with this in the US. |
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| We sat in the orange seats, right next to the media and athlete families. |
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This is the inside of the staduim. It has a cool half roof, so it is like being inside one of those squeezy mouth coin holders (with the squeezy mouth open). |
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| Between events they did fun activities, such as kiss time... |
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| and dance time. |
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| This is the finish of the 100 m women's race. Jeter is in first place. |
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| This is the concession booth for the IAAF World Championship. The booth is filled with ramen, squid jerky, and rice stew. It was not exactly an international menu... notice the complete LACK of nachos with day-glo orange cheese. BOO! |
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| On our way out... |
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| we almost signed up for the free CPR lessons they were doing in the parking lot...... ummmmm... no thanks. |
Oh! I haven't been to Donghwasa since June and it was not this colorful. I will have to head up there with my camera. Our email about social networking came to my mind while I was posting pics of the bodypainting festival.
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