Chinese New Year!

Or Lunar New Year. Though we did not have Christmas or New Year holidays, Chinese New Year here is always 3 days off. I always wanted to be on this side of the world on that date, so here's what I did.

Of course, dinner had to be special...

Yeah... but that was Sunday, the day before. The actual day, I went out in search for something, something special Koreans had to do on that date. Uh, I was unsuccessful. My teach told me that if anything, it would be at Gyeongbokkung Palace but I didn't really find anything there. So I just stuck around to take photos.

I used my 75-300mm lens for this photo. Hadn't used it in a while and to be honest, I wasn't too happy with it's performance (now that I've learned a bit more).

A bit of a re-attempt of another photo I have with the same angle.

I was dying it was so cold out, plus it was windy. My face and hands hurt so bad! But I stayed out there longer than people would find reasonable. I ended up wandering into a museum though.

These swords were almost as long as me! Could slice a pretty big sushi with that!

There's also this waterfall in the area which I was surprised was still running, as everything outdoors was frozen. There was ice around the edges but maybe they warmed the water.

And that's my very un-informative post on Chinese New Year! Oh well, at least I did something!

Oh and I also found out that my family has been in the love business in Korea:

Actually, I didn't know we had a family saint. He must've quit his job to pursue a more prominent business career! Haha.