Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Chiang Mai Flower Show

Thailand - as I see it.

The Chiang Mai Flower Show comes once a year and is a big extravaganza.  The floats, flower arrangements, booths selling plants and flowers, and booths selling anything else you could imagine.  We had fresh fruit all ready to eat, fried goodies, meat and roties, as well as many different kinds of smoothies.  People come from all over the world for this wonderful experience.  The streets were only for walking and there were hundreds of viewers walking alongside the moat and enjoying the spectacle.

The floats were all built on top of cars and driven to the show site.  They were covered with thousands of flowers.  Pictures and figures of Buddhas and the King were made out of many different kinds of flowers.  There were seats and areas to take pictures near each float and exhibition.

Pictures tell a lot more than words, so I am going to put in my blog some of the pictures we took.


A picture of the King and his wife above the array of flowers.


On's sister and baby, Samuel, Marcia Weis, On  Rob's wife, Willi Weis and On's brother.





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