Loy Krathong festival.

It's been months since the fireworks for Loy Krathong festival have started going off at nights, but on the 2nd of November, it actually happened!

There was a beauty contest of the Burmese women on the 1st and the Thai's on the 2nd.

Loy Krathong is the festival where people float small rafts with candles and incense sticks on the centre (beautifully decorated) down rivers. Guardian Angel and I went to the Moei river (the border of Thailand and Burma) to send our little rafts down. We lit them and put small change inside for the children who swim in the river to collect what little money they can find. Unfortunately this all happened very fast so I didn't get any photographs.

We watched all the woman for the beauty contest arriving on floats accompanied by people from their towns.

Then I bought a Khom Fai which is like a hot air balloon. You light the base and wait for it to heat up enough to fly awayyy.

The little girl really enjoyed it. The base got so hot it was burning my fingers.

This is me trying to send it off, but the sank and we had to catch it before it landed!

And.......off it flew! fly away little khom fai! The sky looked so pretty with them all, but you can't really see them in my pictures.

There were lots of fireworks.

We tried to watch some of the stage but couldn't get anywhere good enough to see. Then they lit these fireworks across the tfront of the stage.

We bumped into Phyu Phyu Win, who has moved back in with her Sister and family now.

She was all dressed up, her hair straightened and wearing makeup.

Nic, here is your puppy, it has lovely blue eyes.

Miss you all x