To celebrate New Years Eve we decided to treat the children of Stratton House to a evening out at the Chiang Mai Cold Season Festival held at the grounds of City Hall.
This a huge event, very popular with the locals, with hundreds of stalls where you can find food, clothes, toys, etc.
There are also many ‘fairground rides’ , as well as several stages with live music acts.
Our children had a great time looking around this fantastic spectacle.
They had all received a little pocket money to be able to buy snacks or drinks and then we allowed them to choose a few fairground attractions to enjoy. They all did very well, considering the vast variety of stalls and tempting things, in not asking for too much.
During their time there they enjoyed rides on a merry go round and a ‘Big’ Wheel, and spent time in the Bouncy Castle and House of Horrors.
Tai and Dtu, the older boys tried their hand at bursting balloons with darts and Dtu managed to win himself a cuddly Panda, which he gave to his sister, May, who has also joined us at Stratton House.
The most popular event of the evening seemed to be a snake show we came across by chance.
Tucked away behing the food stalls young Jack noticed the snakes being prepared and pulled us towards the show.
I’m not quite sure ow I felt about watching the first section of the show which involved a boy, of about 12, baiting a very large snake, which I believe was a Python. The snakes very large fangs could done some nasty damage had the boy made a mistake.
Later in the show and older guy performed with a large Cobra, sometimes appearing to hypnotise it and other times outright baiting it to attack.
Certainly not something I want the kids to try at home!
