Yesterday was the Seoul Friendship Fair near city hall. This was my third or fourth Friendship Fair, and I must say, it was the best one so far. In previous years, the event was a little chaotic and the international food selection wasn’t so international. This year, the food booths were down the entire street next to city hall, and extended to the Cheoggye Stream. There were at least 40 countries selling delicious traditional dishes. I was also impressed by the many garbage bags, covered seating, and volunteers helping out. This was one of the few times in Seoul where I looked around and really felt the sense of internationalism that Seoul wants to portray. The weather, food, and location were great. It was a perfect day. Mark your calendars for next year. If it was anything like this year’s it’ll be another great time.

I didn’t take too many pictures because it was one of those events where you either spend too much time photographing and not eating, or eating and not photographing.  I chose to eat!

Check out the entire album on Flickr.

I ate two of those mango cups, and surprisingly, they were sold at the Columbian booth!  Paraguay had some great carne empanadas!

The left picture are Lao textiles for sale, and to the right were popular Turkish kebabs.

a quickr pickr post

Just saw this on Facebook. Someone had too much fun.

My brother’s birthday just passed on May 8th and today is Mother’s Day.  I got off the phone with her an hour ago, and as she usually does, she made me “speak” to our black lab McKenzie over the intercom.  She said McKenzie’s tail was wagging upon hearing my voice, but there’s no way to confirm that.  At least Ras wasn’t there to laugh at me, like he usually does.

Happy Birthday “little” brother, and Happy Mother’s Day Mom!

This picture was taken at The Butchart Gardens in Victoria, BC.  (I love my brother’s haircut and glasses!)

The country club was looking especially nice this morning at 6am.

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As you can see, spring is in full force.  Look at all that green!  Today is the start of my two day work week.  Monday was Children’s Day, I work Tuesday, have Wednesdays off, work Thursday, and Friday is our school’s special holiday.  Then, next Monday is Buddha’s Birthday.  That means I have a four day weekend!  I have no idea what I’m going to do yet, but I guess I should start making plans.

Hope everyone has a good week.

I got my monthly Photojojo Photo Time Capsule tonight and guess what I was doing a year ago this week?

Exactly the same thing!  I’m growing almost the same herbs, minus the parsely, which I barely used last year.  (Thanks again Reardon for the seeds!)