Today we went to Buddha's Birthday party at the Ypao Park at Tumon Bay. Heidi wanted to go because they were supposed to have good vegetarian Thai food. The Thai food looked a little "sketchy" according to Heidi, so we had Korean noodles and kimcee. It was good. We also sampled some fried crispy vegetarian rolls, chai tea and a very strange shaved ice that was crushed ice with strawberry syrup and a big scoop of strawberry jam in the middle (we removed the jam)
The highlight of Buddha's birthday party was a brief rain shower (felt so cool) and a local dance group that performed traditional Chamorro dance. The kids were really cute and it was fun to listen to music (though one song sounded a lot like a Simon and Garfunkel song). Erin explained the most of the Chamorro culture was lost when Spaniards landed and converted everyone to Catholicism. Some 20 years ago a group redeveloped some of the traditional Chamorro dances and music based on study of other Micronesia cultures. They began a program to teach the kids this music and dance. It is very successful and popular here.
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