being Buddhist

fight juice and coconut pancakes

celebrating Lao New Year  at temple with my extended AVT crew! 

Buddhist offerings. Apparently spirits have sweet teeth.

We stood in line for an hour for these coconut pancakes/kanon kok. Worth it. 

the rickety bench where we ate our lunch

  

freshly-pressed sugar cane juice. So much sugar that Matt was ready to fight Jesus. Next year we'll mix it with fresh coconut juice (maybe someone will bring a flask <.<) and call it fight juice. 

the food of my people! Stick rice, spicy papaya salad (it wasn't that spicy but  don't say that to Yathrib), and Lao sausage. 

Matt tasting the chili sauce. 

these gals. I love these gals. 

Mariammmmmmmmm. 

   

Happy pi mai!!!!

Bee tee dubs, pi = year, mai = new, and sprinkling/spraying/throwing/supersoaking water on people is considered good luck. Happy Lao New Year, everyone!