The King's Birthday

I believe the king is now 84 years old and spends most of his days in the hospital (so I’ve heard).  And how exactly do you celebrate the birth of the king you love some much?  (Of course you get the day off of work.) By planting flowers!  The parks are beautiful and full of flowers!  We decided to visit a park close to the house and play Thai for the day.  Before we could even get to the park the streets are crowded with vendors selling clothes or toys or whatever they had in their house, oh and food; can’t forget the food!  Inside the park there are so many people!  I am amazed this is how so many thai people spend the day.  It was also interesting that most seemed young.  It was almost like this was a mall substitute for the day.  They got dressed up and met up with friends at the park!  

 I was by no means the only person with a camera as well.  Even in Singapore, I noticed people posing for pictures a lot.  They will take a picture with anything and everything.  So of course, they pull out a camera at a park to hopefully get that perfect pic for facebook!

 In this picture these are for real lily pads!  I have never seen any so big!  I thought they were fake added for the king, not so.  People throw coins onto the pads, kinda like we would into a fountain.

Noah posing with the sunflowers.  Isn't he cute!

 Taking a break in the shade with a orange Fanta!

These two were too cute to just walk past.  The "bigger" girl was determined to carry the "smaller" girl.  We watched her struggle for a while.