May 16th there was a big parade to celebrate Buddha’s birthday. Fortunately for us it started right by our apartment at Gudeok Stadium and we just kind of stumbled on it. The parade went from our neighborhood to Busan station. We watched part of the parade from a little baseball bar that overlooks the street where the parade was so that’s why some of the pictures are from above.
This is part of the ceremony that they had in Gudeok Stadium which is where the parade started. We watched for a while but then decided that since we were hungry we'd go get some food before the parade started.
Yay the parade finally started. This is one of the buddha floats.
A lotus flower float (this was one of my favorites)
This is us about to get pushed out of the way by the parade. This Korean man in the audience kept taking Patrick's camera and offering very kindly to take our picture. The only problem was that everytime he did it it was like the first time he ever held a camera and it would take him a good two minutes or so to figure out how to take a picture. By which time the float or whatever would already have passed us.
Unfortunately this pictured turned out a bit fuzzy but this lady just perfectly shows the mood of the parade. Everybody seemed so happy to be a part of it.
We weren't really sure what this motorcycle riding, fire shooting pig had to do with the rest of the parade but it definitely won the prize for funniest float.
Lots of ladies with lanterns...
... and finally some more lanterns.
nice pictures