August 12th in Thailand is not only the Queens Birthday, but is also mothers day. In honor of mothers day, the Rotary helping hands club set up a tent next to the river where they sold fish of various sizes to be released into the river, giving back life: Good Luck on Mothers Day. When anyone bought fish, before they would release it,they would say a prayer and make a wish. Thousands of fish were released into the river. (Apparently there were some left over though, because that night for dinner we had deep fried fish, the same we released into the river, eyes, tails, scales, and all, Yum) We headed back to Dew's school (A tutorial English School) Where the students made paper cup like things in preparation for the celebration of the Queens Birthday later that night. We left the school with the paper cups (Which turned out to be hand protectors) And made our way to the Phrae stadium, where differant organization were lined up, at least 1,500 people. We spent about an hour sliding the paper cups onto candles, waiting for it to get dark enough to light. One by one, every organization took a turn walking on stage and offering a large decorative egg- like- thing in front of a massive picture of the Queen. The school band played the nation anthem (Veeeery Long song) and we all lit the candles, there were fireworks and lights and music. It was amazing to see 1,000's of flickering candles as well as the amount of love and respect the Thai people have for their Queen, A wonderful once in a life time sight.
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