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**triardwonvada** · 04-09-2012, 10:13 AM

Thanks for your post. These urns look exactly like the one I was talking about. Are the red ones you commonly see in stores just a cheaper version used for the same purpose?

Part of our training in Uthong was a blessing ceremony. Since I was one of the older ones in our group I was sitting down with about three or four others and the rest of the group came around to do the blessing. A few days later back in the village it was I who was doing the blessing of the elders in our host family. There wasn't a lot of water splashing going on in the village. Across from the wat a bunch of kids had blocked the street asking for toll, a donation for the wat. We put some money in the bucket and got splashed anyway which felt really good in the 100 F April heat. We only experienced the "full impact" of Songkran in Chiangmai a year later.

04-09-2012, 10:13 AM	#7
triardwonvada Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	Thanks for your post. These urns look exactly like the one I was talking about. Are the red ones you commonly see in stores just a cheaper version used for the same purpose? Part of our training in Uthong was a blessing ceremony. Since I was one of the older ones in our group I was sitting down with about three or four others and the rest of the group came around to do the blessing. A few days later back in the village it was I who was doing the blessing of the elders in our host family. There wasn't a lot of water splashing going on in the village. Across from the wat a bunch of kids had blocked the street asking for toll, a donation for the wat. We put some money in the bucket and got splashed anyway which felt really good in the 100 F April heat. We only experienced the "full impact" of Songkran in Chiangmai a year later.
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