Open House Ceremony

Today I thought I would put up some pictures about life here in Thailand. Soemtimes living here, feels kind of like home. The traffic, McDonald's Pizza Hut and the other modern immenities of life, but pretty often, different things happen that remind you, that you are long ways from Kansas, or in my case Canada. Yesterday, we attended an open house ceremony of one of Tawm's high school friends, it also happened to be her engagement and wedding day. (I will talk about that stuff in a later post). The idea sounds very western, opening up your house for people to come and take a look around the place. People always have this ceremony when they move into a new place. Typically, in Thailand, any ceremony includes monks. For this particular ceremony, 5 monks came and chanted for a long while and then they gave a blessing to house and the people living in that house. They also went around sprinkling water at different place on the property and on people as a form of blessing. They also put a Buddhist drawing above the door to ward off any evil spirits or ghosts. Life sure is different.