Cherry Blossoms

These photos are about two weeks late in the posting; I've been a bit slow lately. A few weeks ago was the peak of the Cherry Blossoms, so Sun, Taejin and I spent a Sunday at the Yeoido Flower Festival. Yeoido is a small island in the Han River, where most of the government buildings are located. The Assembly Building is ringed by dozens of cherry blossom trees, which, if I have my information correct, were a gift from the Japanese in the 1960's as a symbol of improved relations. Surrounding the Korean government buildings with a tree that is one of the national symbols of Japan was quite a controversial move, but who can complain when the trees are in full bloom?

Here's one for you, Mom!

Of course there was no shortage of cute kids posing in the trees. Having none of our own, we had to take pictures of other people's kids.

Some of the other spring flowers on display

Getting my portrait done

The building with the green dome is the background is the Assembly Building.

Sun in her cute bug glasses

The only thing lacking was the grass -- Korea doesn't seem to really be into grass. But some people made due and set up camp right in the dirt.

And of course you have your abundance of sickeningly cute couples taking endless photos of each other.

Crossing the waterway over a tributary of the Han River.