Happy Buddha!

On Wednesday, we had school off because it was Moon Festival Day! YAY! No school in the middle of the week! It was a lovely day!

Liz, Kailey, Karyn and I went to Taichung and found this awesome temple that Liz and I had seen from a bus window, but did not get out and look at it. So we decided to go and check it out on Wednesday.

I think it's beautiful and it's different than other Buddhist temples. It's made of concrete and there's a bigger temple built over a smaller one.

It's not the best shot. But I like that the incense is sticking up and you can see the temple through the hole in the cauldron (I don't know what the thing is called that the incense is in.)

Here's a closer up look at the little temple inside the big temple. It's beautiful! I think it's a fairly new temple or at least it was recently renovated, because it was really nice!

Me in front of the temple!

This huge, happy Buddha happened to be next to the temple! This was actually the main reason we came here, but the temple was an added bonus! I loved the shot with the lady in the hat working in front of the Buddha!

Kissing the Buddha in Taichung, Taiwan! What can I say?! (September 2010)


I like big men :) Kissing the Sphinx in Cairo, Egypt! (September 2007)

Me with the Buddha! This thing is huge and so cute!

Wednesday was an awesome day! Moon Festival day celebrates the full moon and the beginning of fall each year. It's a big deal here that there's no school and people get off of work.

People often have barbecues with their families and friends. They set off fireworks and watch the moon.

We went up on the hill near our house and looked over the city on Wednesday evening and we saw hundreds of fireworks (literally) all over the city. It was beautiful! We also watched the moon for a bit too. It was shining so bright and it lit our way down the mountain. It was lovely!