Here is a list of all the words that describe my weekend -
Incredible.
Fantastic.
Marvelous.
Stupendous.
Stunning.
Magnificent.
Glorious.
Wonderful.
We went to the Ping Xi Lantern Festival near Taipei
And let me just tell you right now,
the pictures do not do it justice.
We went with Charlene and Kailey,
two of the secretaries from Berhan.
How this works -
People buy lanterns and write their wishes for the year on them.
These wishes could be anything at all
We saw wishes for
losing weight
getting PhDs
finding husbands...
There's a broad range.
This was our lantern!
And this was my wish...
The guy lighting our lantern for us..
And there it goes!
After a certain time,
they sent off about a hundred lanterns at once
every half our or so.
And just to top off this night of new sights,
we got to see the President of Taiwan!
It was the craziest thing,
he walked right through the crowd
with only a few people surrounding him to help him get through.
The arrow is pointing to a red blob.
That's him.
Just take my word for it :)
There he is on screen!
And here is the giant lantern they had for President Ma to send off -
Writing Taiwan's wish on the enormous lantern -
The yellow lights are lanterns...
the blue lights are cameras...
Does this not look eerily similar to 'Tangled'?
I believe so.
I'll just say it made me very happy to see this.
This lantern was stuck in a tree...
It looked really cool,
but unfortunately it was too dark to see the tree.
One of the lanterns fell on an old wooden shed
and these ladies stepped up and put out the flame with their waterbottles.
Needless to say,
everyone cheered that kind of heroism.
A wish crashing and burning
in the middle of a huge crowd of people...
It did get everyone moving, though...
See, there's the crowd -
We waited for probably an hour to get on the bus,
and then it was an hour long ride to the MRT,
and probably around another hour on the MRT til we got to our hostel.
But I would definitely do it all again.
It was that amazing!
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