Sitting 'round the Christmas tree.
We just wanted to wish everyone Merry Christmas!!
Here we are in northern Thailand in Chiang Mai. I may have gotten a sunburn. Surprisingly, there are a fair amount of christmas decorations and people with ‘Santa’ hats on. Ahh, what they do for the tourist dollar. We are currently staying at a place with 40 some kids that live at the Children’s Shelter. They either were abandoned or the parents couldn’t afford to raise them. We got to see them have a Christmas eve party last night, and today we went to watch them dance at a local church, before watching a play all in Thai.
The sun shining bright on us.
I really couldn’t tell what was going on in the play. The gist I got from it was that the cast were supposed to be puppets. One was unlucky or unconfident and was challenged by another puppet that everyone liked. The one that everyone liked won the competition. Then a girl sang to the unlucky puppet, he talked to some normal person, and the popular puppet got beatten down. I dunno, it was wierd.
A strange play.
We walked around town after the play, and saw a few other oddities. People were lighting off large mortar fireworks to celebrate Christmas. There was also a concert set up in one of the parks that had a chior singing holiday songs. After the chior finished they seemed to be doing some kind of pagaent with girls dressed in “Sexy Santa” clothes.
Merry Christmas!!
#1 by billis on December 25, 2010 - 10:11 am
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cool animated street scene!
#2 by Laura on December 25, 2010 - 10:16 am
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So are they Christains? I didn’t realized people in Asia celebrated chrismas. MERRY CHRISTMAS! Glad you guys are safe and having a good time. This will be a christmas remember. We miss you and love you.
#3 by bill helbig on December 25, 2010 - 10:38 am
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your adventure continues to grow and change your lives..jane sneaking jalapenos now is funny…christmas in asia is an event fun to behold..different, yet familiar..
dadxxxooo
#4 by Eric on December 25, 2010 - 10:48 am
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Laura: Most are a type of Buddhist. Although there are some christians here, as well as other religions. Most seem to think that Christmas is pretty, but strange since they don’t celebrate it.
#5 by Aunt Karen on December 25, 2010 - 2:56 pm
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Hi, Did you go to the place where they hand carve tables, chairs, desks, etc? It’s away from the city a bit into the country. It’s utterly amazing. How about the Buddhist temple? You walk up a mile of steps and the worshipers attach 24K gold leaf to icons. I think the name of the motel we stayed at contained the name Orchid in it. It was a 2 story kind of primitive place. Wish we were there again.
#6 by Eric on December 25, 2010 - 6:13 pm
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Karen: In Luang Prabang we saw the wood workers and saw tons of temples with Gold Leaf. We stayed at a place called Thong Bay. In Chiang Mai, we have just roamed the city and gone to the church so far.