Katherine and I at the Lao Buddhist Temple in Manassas, Virginia with one of our Lao language teachers. The Temple is basically a community center for the Lao community in the DC area, so we go to practice our atrocious Lao skills. Thankfully, the Lao are very nice people generally, and don't laugh in our face too often.

It was the Kathin Festival, wherein everyone takes the things given to the temple the past year and parades it around a pond. Katherine is carrying an umbrella and I have some sort of papier mache tower, the use of which I never figured out.