End of Rainy Season in Burma

Yesterday we heard drums and sticks banging and looked out the window to see this. A bit later the Buddhist Monk that lives there and speaks no English came over and knocked on my door. He motioned for 2 of us to come and putting his hand near his mouth we were to eat at his house.... OK, we went over and the apartment was jammed with people. We were ushered up to a bedroom where 2 monks sat wi

th an interpreter on the floor. We were asked to sit in front of several bowls of food, finger food and eat. We ate and through an interpreter found this was the end of rainy season celebration in Burma. This tree is for the monks who live here. We put some money on the tree and 2 boxs of chocolates at the base of the tree. We were the honored guests. They didn't eat and we found they eat breakfast and lunch and fast from food and drink until breakfast.