Loy Krathong

On our road, making krathongs

Kaiya (and friends) with the krathong we made

Getting ready to float the krathong

The sparklers were a hit

Several weeks ago there was a holiday here called Loy Krathong. Translated loy means 'to float' and krathong means 'raft'. For this holiday, people build little floating rafts from banana tree trunks and decorate it with banana leaves, flowers and candles. Then they take their little "rafts" to the river and float let it float out on the water. When I was here before (13 yrs ago) I remember doing this and seeing how beautiful all the candles looked out on the water. This year Jonathan was sick so we stayed home and were not going to do or see anything for the holiday. However when I went out on our street in the evening, there was a group of people sitting on a mat making the krathongs. Kaiya and I (with Jonah watching on) decided to make our own little krathong. We had fun decorating it and collecting flowers for us and others to use for the krathongs. Then later in the evening we went and put our krathong in our little pond near our house.