Yo guuuuys,
Happy Easter! We don’t do easter overhere, but it actually is a different holiday here for the next few days and it’s called the Songkran fastival. Someone yesterday told me if was Thailand’s new years, but I havwn’t confirmed that as true yet.
Basically, it’s the water festival- you throw buckets of water over each other and party in the streets. There’s also this powdered clay type stuff that they mix with water to create a light grey soupy mud, and people rubit on your face. Everyone’s got squirtguns and it’s an all out battle. Traditionally, pouring waer over someone for this festival is a sign of respect and good fortune on them, so basically they just have to take it and thank you 
There was a parade yesterday and I was in it too! I met up with my workout group and they gave me the same flowery shirt they were wearing, and we were off! We had a sweet lil float and a crew of hand drummers with us and we danced around and played with all the water. I had a supersoaker and got in all out battles with all the lids on the sidelines- it was great.
After I dropped off one of my workout friends, I went back to the park (ground zero of the festival) and met a buncha fun young people and had some beers with um. There’s a main road that goes thru the park, and there were cars and trucks lined up on each side blasting music with people dancing all over them. There was a constant flow of slow moving carsand bikes coming down the road, and they were all getting covered head to toe with clay and water. I’venever seen such a thing.
Given the wet state of everything, it would have been suicide for me to bring my camera… but today I’m gunna try to find a way to get some shots.
As the day went on, we were drunk, and as one thing led to another I ended up in one of the ponds along the road… I donno, everyone was doing it and it seemed like a good idea at the time. It wasn’t until my 2nd or 3rd trip in that I relized my keys had floated outa my pocket at one point… but luckily Zoe was there to give me a ride home when I could grab my extra set and go get my bike. Time to make an extra backup set again :p
After going back to the park later in the evening, Zoe and I shopped around and ate some food. I got a chance to show off my freelines and saw some great handmade crafts, so it was a great success! And just before I left, I grabbed a little snack to-go so that I could share it here with you:
goon fun, eh?
Anyway, I’m off to join the festival again- it’ll be going down for the next few days, so no school for me!
