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The Mother of All Birthdays

Where: Thailand
August 14, 2006 at 9:10 AM | by | Comments (0)


Oops. Did anybody else remember to drink a toast to Queen Sirikit of Thailand on Saturday? August 12 was her majesty's 74th birthday and a national holiday in Thailand (although in our experience every day is like a holiday in Thailand: How could you work with all those beautiful beaches?

If you were lucky enough to chance across a birthday ceremony--held simultaneously in all corners of Thailand--you would've seen massive candle-lighting ceremonies and fireworks displays in honor of "the mother of all Thais".

Now we've heard of the mother of all sausage eaters, the mother of all waterfalls, and the mother of all bananas, but the mother of all Thais? That's one spicy babe. Happy birthday, Sirikit.

[Image via jowdi/Flickr]

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Thais Celebrate National Mother [ETNA]

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