A Fun Festival

How was your weekend?  It rained all day today here in Florida, YUCK!!!

My son Corey, the son that went to Thailand back in November?   Today he invited me to go to a Thai festival, it was raining kinda bad but we decided to go ahead and try to enjoy the day.  Oh by the way.....this is my son and my daughter-in-law...yep he got married!!!!  Told them they need to get to work at getting me a granddaughter :)

 

They had outside tent like (tops no sides) any way several "tents" were filled with delicious food that people prepared and some of the proceeds were to be donated to the temple.

  I do love spicy food even though my tummy might disagree :)

Excuse my attempt at Thai......  we had Pad Thai...this is one of my favorite dishes that she has made for us and it is sooo good!!!  We also had Chicken Satay (Chicken grilled on a stick), Egg roll, Sticky rice with mangoes marinated like in a coconut sauce,  Papaya salad which is well liked by the women in Thailand.  It is a VERY SPICY salad and they like it cause it helps them to loose weight .... (I need to have her make a batch for me so I can have it EVERY day).  Love that salad also but my lips were burning and I had to stop eating it.  Kai Hong which is a ball of sesame seeds and a taro filling, did not like that one so much.  Also had these little orange balls that reminded me of little balls of dough deep fried and then covered in a sweet sauce...they were good!!!   I hope I got the names right, I am still in the learning stage :) 

There were two of these standing guard to protect the temple.

The alter was beautiful with all the flowers and the Buddha in gold

The art work on all of the walls were fantastic so much detail. 

Chandeliers all over on the ceiling.

It is so interesting to learn another culture isn't it?

Suzann ~xoxo~