Lantern Sonntag

Lantern Sunday in the city. Everyone spends days or weeks crafting their own paper lanterns.

A lot of people spend days or weeks just making one beautiful lantern, and they'll hang it somewhere in the city centre where people will see it, choosing their spot carefully as so not to lose attention from other lanterns nearby.

This year, we decided to make several hundered identical lanterns and string them all around the castle at the top of the hill, placed just so the people on the street below can't quite work out the eerie glow. The castle is the pinnacle of our city, all roads spiderweb out from it like how all roads lead to Rome. It looks like it should be the highest point because it's on such a steep motte, but it isn't anymore.

Usually, in the small ampitheatre next the the castle gardens, they do open air Shakespear plays on this day of the year. Hopefully lots of people will see our lanterns when they walk past. There's a glass elevator that leads from the bottom to the top of the hill so people can go up and look at the patterns we've made with out lanterns, if they want to.