Did You See The Festival?

This is our cities little mascot. He's all over the place. He's on our signs. He's on the pillars of the bridges. He's on trucks He's so cute. Kinda makes you want to vomit a little bit. Here he is rendered in flowers.




So, now onto the festival itself. The festival in my city was quite wonderful actually. First off, there were teams of dancers from Thailand, China, Australia, Bulgaria, and South Africa. These people did traditional dancing. I saw the Bulgarians twice. They were amazing. They also brought their own band, with some incredibly insane accordian and clarinet playing. There is no way that I could play that fast for such a long period of time.
The Korean things at the festival included tight-rope walking, plate spinning, dancing, music, etc. It was pretty amazing that there were so many things for the kids to try. They could even try tight-rope walking.


The festival also had plenty of food, traditional things including the silk worms (remember those?). There were also vendors selling all kinds of things, including randomly some eggs that were in a wicker kind of holder. I don't know what the deal was with that. There were also these great painted logs for the kids to put their faces through and get their pictures taken.

Okay. Now, this blog is funny and sarcastic, but it is also a strange kind of anthropologic record of Korea. So, it would be wrong of me, in a scientific way, to not include this strange tidbit that I observed at the festival. There was a booth with a large wooden phallus. The phallus had water coming out of the tip. People were holding a cup uner the mighty phallic stream and drinking it's bounty. I don't know what this is about. I'm too embarassed to ask. But, here is the proof that I'm not drunk. I didn't want to show this, but it's for scientific posterity.