New Year's Eve

Today was the Lunar New Year. Lunar New Year is a big holiday in Korea. Rie and I celebrated last night by going to our local public bath. It was much more packed than I had ever seen. On the men's side, there are about 40 showers or taps to wash up at. They were all full and people were waiting in line to scrub. I think there was a problem with the water temperature control as well. My favorite bath is a wooden bath with water just under 110 degrees. Last night it was up to over 116 degrees. Some of the other baths were a more comfortable 100 degrees, so I relaxed in those. When I was nice and relaxed and ready to lay down, I went over to one of the five marble slabs under the heat lamps and took a quick nap.