The Rocket Festival

This weekend Revonna and I travelled with sixteen other people from my school to Northern Thailand for the Rocket Festival. It was just like the Crab Carnival or Bay Days or the Oyster Festival except that everything is centered around the rockets. There was a long parade, lots of music, good food, and rockets of all sizes. Thailand is preparing for the rainy season and as kind of a tribute to the rain gods, rockets are launched. Of course, every farmer wants to have the biggest and best rocket. The missles themselves looked pretty primitive but boy could they fly. Luckily, none of them landed on us.