Saturday, February 14, 2009

Lantern Festival- like Disneyland with out the rides...on acid. and with a lot of crazy lanterns...

I thought the Taiwan Lantern festival (which was held in Yilan this year, a city about 20 min from where I live) was just a time for people to get together and write their wishes on paper lanterns and watch them fly up into the sky...but it was so, so much more. I think the title of this post says it all, but I'll post a bunch of pictures for you to feast your eyes on...

To the dismay of event organizers, this years lantern festival was haunted by the presence of a demonic man sporting blue bunny ears. Local police have dubbed him the "Chubby Bunny".
He has often been spotted carrying a trident and sneering at on-lookers...

I think it's safe to say that the creator of this lantern has a great deal to learn about the fine sport of surfing...or, as Amy says, "Every surfers dream- to slide down the back side of a wave..."







Sorry China! We realize that you want Taiwan to be part of your massive and quite frankly frightening police state, but as you can see here, Taiwan is pictured in green and China in red, indicating that they are, in fact, different countries. And the lantern's already been made. So let's not make a big fuss about it and just keep things the way they are, shall we?

Who hasn't had the inexplicable urge to suck the teat of a alarmingly obese plastic Taiwanese bovine friend? REFRESHING!
I must thank Jody for the incredible placement of the camera on this one. That cow was actually MASSIVE.
Yes there was actually a glowing fetus in that belly- too bad the camera didn't pick up that detail!
Accidently posted this twice and can't figure out how to delete it...

1 comment:

melarias said...

KITTY!
I love your post about surfing "Mean Dogs" - glad that your dog is okay!! I LOVE love LOVE your surfboard-carrying contraption - you rock! Gosh I miss surfing with you! Thank you for always being ready to go and catch some waves whenever and encouraging me to come. I savor those memories and they help me get through my surfless nights here in dry AZ where the best rides I get these days are on my skateboard to get the mail ;) Although, I DID go snowboarding for V-day and that totally rocked with fresh powder!! Tell me what your skype dealio is - k? Luv ya! Mel (Boo)