Some people like Buddha, and some people don’t, right???
Today we got to experience what people who like Buddha do and see when they visit the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Karo (pronounced Pre Q). We saw that, in a legend, there is a demon king with 10 heads and, when he gets angry, 20 arms. Also there are snake guardians that have five heads and necks. Their faces look like human faces when they are happy and crocodile faces when they are mad.

Buddhists have lots of ways of getting good luck, including dripping holy water off of flowers and onto their heads, taking a small piece of gold leaf and sticking it onto a statue of Buddha, putting some money on top of the heads of elephant statues, and many more. Also, elephants with curled in trunks are supposedly happy, while ones with out facing trunks are supposedly lucky.

We also learned that you can tell the difference between monkey statues and demon statues by looking at their feet; demons have shoes, monkeys don’t.