The rocket parade was today. I thought it was going to be fun but it was just kinda hot and drunk villages everywhere. People where covered in mud drunk and tried to touch all the bystanders and I didn’t really feel all that comfortable about it. Traditionally the rockets were being made to set off to ask the gods for rain. The parade had 12 different villages showing off their rockets, dances, costumes, etc. and during the entire parade there were a ton of fake penises everywhere. Such as on the fake cows they had the cows penis and balls were huge. Did that for 3 hours and that was way too long.
After the parade some of the girls went to go have dinner with some of the nursing students we met. We ended up going to Wat Pochai first because today is a Buddha holiday. The Buddisht holiday is because it is Buddha’s birthday and the day Buddha die. So, we got candles, incents, and lotus flowers and then walked around Wat Pochai three times for good luck and left the offerings at the pagoda in front of the wat.
After we had dinner at a hot pot street vendor. I couldn’t cook my meat properly so Som cooked my meat for me. Sad.
After dinner we walked along the river to a Pagoda that held a famous Buddha image. The Pagoda was supposedly the breast bone of the Buddha was held but now it is in Laos. This Pagoda was different than all the others because the original Pagoda was in the river. The Pagoda was built where the Mekong River is now when it was dry and then the river filled so now all you can see is the top of the Pagoda.
My new love is prickly heat. I realized in Thailand that you sweat a lot and chafe a lot at places you never thought u would chafe before.
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