Lao New Year!! Year of the Rat

I am in love with the Lao People. This event was amazing. From the temple to the food!! Shooting was great on Saturday, it was about 70-75 degrees. The first thing we explored was the inside of the temple. It was filled with people sitting on the floor listening to the monks and praying. There was so much to see and learn that it was even hard to concentrate on the filming, well for me anyway.

After that we met up with the brothers and we filmed them celebrating the New Year. There was beautiful Lao Music playing all day long. The kids were running around with shaving cream all over them and of course shooting water at each other. Saturday we met Maniphone from Lao Star Media. She is a very nice lady and when we told her we were there filming a documentary on the brothers she interviewed them so they will be on TV!! Lao Star Media is broadcasted in the 50 united states and Canada!

Thai TV was also there, I gave them a DVD of Racing Heart Trailer and they said they would be contacting us because they like to help promote films that are about Asian Americans. To say the least, Saturday was an incredible day. When we got to our hotel room we were all so tired that we crashed, Chris and Mark watched a movie, I pretty much snoozed as soon as my head hit the pillow.

On Sunday, it was cold and cloudy so we didn't film much. We did find the closest whataburger and had Mark eat there for the first time. We left Texas pretty early and were back in Kansas City by midnight Sunday. Oh what a Trip!! it was a blast!