Fruit Festival 2004

This is picture is from the fruit festival in 2004. Jennifer was invited to walk in the opening parade wearing traditional dress. She had a great time walking through he city of Chanthaburi. The carried basket woven from local materials like the women in the past would. These would have been used for sellers carrying to sell. It was easy to reach and keep open and dry out. Often times dried fish or other seafood was left on the trays in the full sunlight until they turned into a jerky like texture, this would preserve the fish for a lot longer and keep it from turning rancid. They walked around the entire city and many local politicians and other community leaders and agencies were represented in the parade. I like this picture it really shows what it was like in the past.