Thai New Years

April 13-14-15

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! Thai New Years marks the best holiday ever!!! It is a country-wide, three day water fight! Anything and everyone is fair game. If you want to stay dry you better plan and be a fast runner. Actually, you're not going to stay dry. The holiday is probably just a ploy by the telephone manufacturers to make money, as 1000s of phone are probably rouined every year over these 3 days. Jen brought some waterproof cameras from the states, so we were able to take pictures!!

After the hilltribe visit Jen, David, and I made it to the city of Chiang Mai where we met up with 10 or so of my PC friends. David and Jen got a view of the crazyness that usually ensues when we're all together.

The Thais now celebrate New Years on Jan 1st and change their calander year then too (it's the year 2549 in Thailand), but Song Kran (thai new years) will never go away. April is the HOTTEST month of the year where temps make it up over 110 most days. Who would pass up a 3 day water fight??

The trip to Chiang Mai wasn't full of sight seeing, we were either in the guesthouse or out "playing with water" usually just within a few blocks of the guesthouse. Chiang Mai is know as the best place to go for Song Gran so that's where we went! My PC friends and I have been planning this trip since last New Years.

So in the morning we'd walk to a shop and get Khow Soy, a fabulous noodle soup dish only found in the Chiang Mai area, then we'd go back to the A/C and watch movied for a while. All the girls piled into one room. By early afternoon someone would go on a beer run and shortly thereafter we'd make it out to the streets with water guns and buckets (one for the beer, one for throwing water) in hand. We'd find a spot by the moat or on the side of the street and throw water on the people walking by or in the back of trucks, passing by.

As always happens with I get with my PC friends I donned my Chiquita Banana outfit. And there was stage dancing to be had.