msfledermaus | Monks, butter, hand soap and happy mayhem... (Reply)

Yeah, you read that right...at the Jade Mines today we have a local Tibetan Buddhist monastary in with tubs of butter for making flower sculptures. They're actually quite colorful and beautiful...at first we were a little worried since they needed a fair amount of water and apparently hand-soap for the carving. But things have shaped up nicely and there are lots of people leaving with delicate little flowers wrapped carefully in paper towels. (We guards are watching carefully to make sure we don't have any Butter Incidents in the galleries.)

It's beautiful when they're singing, too... they were singing various things earlier, and combines with the echoes down the stairs it was just so haunting and unearthly...

So there you are...