Songkran

Songkran is the Thai New Year and it is a great and crazy festival! For Songkran the church was closed for 2 days so I went up to Ubon with Ket's brother.

I could not believe it but there was a Starbucks on the way! We all screamed and then did a U-turn and I treated everyone to a Starbucks drink! It was so much fun! You will not believe this either! One day while we were traveling around Ubon, we faw a new building and inside this new building was STARBUCKS! Now I can officially live in Ubon full time! It is no longer the country, we have become a city, a city with Starbucks!

One of the traditions is to put powder on each others faces to celebrate and have fun! So we played a game and when you lost, someone put powder on your face. It is a wet powder that dries on your face.

The tradition is to pour water in the hands of the older people and bless them with strength and health. And then they take the water from their hands and put it on the back of the younger generation for a blessing too. So after church we ate lunch together and then we got all the older people to sit down and we blessed them! Below is a picture of the blessing water.


After we blessed the older people they wanted to bless us. This is a picture of me receiving a blessing from Noi's mom! Noi is one of my close friends here in Thailand!