Birthday Parade

One day while exploring Patan (another city in the Kathmandu valley) we stumbled right into the middle of a parade- a birthday parade! Apparently in Nepal, if you are a woman and live to the age of 78, you are honored with parade! The birthday girl was carried through the streets in a jauntily decorated chair with a canopy and rows of girls threw colored rice while the men played flutes. We decided to import this cultural practice back to the States for our birthdays!