Kathina

Yesterday, we made our day trip to Wellington and visit the Stokes Valley monastry for the kathina celebration. This is a ceremony where lay people gives robes to the monk annually. There were about a couple of hundreds of people at the monastry including Thais, Laotians, Cmbodians, SriLankans, Malaysians, Singaporeans and quite a number of Kiwis. We had a dana too where everyone bring a dish to share and you can imagine the amount of food brought into the monastry. On the way hoe, we visited one of our friend who has just moved from Tawa to Paraparaumu.