There were several paintings of the Queen around town, for the Thais to pay tribute to their country’s mother, with flowers, plants and other gifts. Ceremonies celebrated her birthday with their National Anthem. Blue ribbons, and flags of blue and Thai colors, framed the portraits. I add this because if you are familiar with Thais, they associate colors with the royal family. I believe there are 4 royal colors. Yellow is for the King and is worn every Monday. Pink, Tuesday, someone told me is because the king was on TV and he was wearing a pink shirt when he came out of the hospital. So it is worn on Tuesday to symbolize good health. Blue, Friday, is the color for the Queen. Green is for Wednesday. There is no particular color for Thursday. The Royal family might ask you to wear blue on an off day. Since today was the queens birthday they were asked to wear blue. 
This is the display from our appartment lobby, which also happens to be a mall entrance. Overall the city busy as usual. Fireworks sounded, and we stepped out on the balcony to watch. As we watched the light show in the sky, I thought I might have heard Bryce whisper, Happy Mother’s Day.
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Hi Bonnie (and of course Ramiro and Bryce!) - I happened to get your blog web address from the swimming e-mail list (I never removed myself from the list despite not swimming with the group for over a year!) Anyway, I just wanted to say a huge hello! You blog is awesome! Is your e-mail the same? I would love to write more and catch up a bit! :)
Your friend,
Keli Renoud
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