Holidays & Birthdays

Today is my wife's birthday. While she is not sensitive about her age, I will politely omit it.

For her birthday, we are taking the kids to Dreamworld, the local Bangkok amusement park. This trip is made possible not only by the benevolence of my wife in putting the kids first on her birthday, but also because the kids have a four day weekend to celebrate Makha Bucha.

Makha Bucha is the holiday which celebrates Buddha's first sermon. Tim informed me that it is also marks the day that Buddha was born and died. It is a very important religious holiday. I guess you could say its like having a holiday to celebrate Easter, Christmas and the Sermon on the Mount, minus the gift giving and commercialism.

Tim and the kids went to a religious ceremony with her brother's family and the fortune teller group. I think it involved making another statute, although I'm not certain of that. The reason that I didn't go was that in addition to not being Buddhist, we had already decided that I would go to Tim's work to do some work on their network and setting up some print servers. I don't have enough time at the moment to blog about that lovely experience, but I will when I get a chance.