Explanation of the two slide shows below

Since the slide shows mess up if I try to also enter text in the posts, I will explain them here.

The first slide show was from the Seoul International Motor Show. It's not a major car show, with the big draws being the Korean car companies, i.e. Kia, Samsung, SsangYong, and Hyundai. It was interesting to see the cars, but there weren't many concept cars other than the new hybrids and electric cars. The girls modeling with the cars were pretty cool. Most of the cars were on rotating platforms where the girls would pose for each camera taking pictures. Most of the time I was too impatient to wait for the girls to look into my camera. It was the last day of the car show, so there weren't too many freebies. I managed to get the program for the car show for 2000 won instead of 10000 and a free bag from Hankook tires.

The second slide show I uploaded was from the Buddhist Lantern Parade in Jongno. The parade is part of the festivities leading up to Buddha's birthday. It was amazing to see the amount of people participating in the parade. Each temple had their monks in the parade, along with their followers. There are apparently over a million lanterns used in the parade. It's not hard to imagine since I was at the parade for two and a half hours and it wasn't even over. Right before I left a monk in the parade came up to me and gave me his lantern. I'll try and take a picture of it, since I don't think it will make it back home in one piece. It's made with paper and wires and probably won't survive a plane ride.

At both of the events I was accompanied by SulHee. Those of you that have spoken to me recently may know her better by her English name, Kat. She's my new girlfriend. She's an English teacher in the far south part of Seoul. I met her through my Korean friend Vickie, who she used to work with. I'll work on getting some pictures of her up here.