Quick Update: Fun is Being Had.

I have had absolutely no time to sit down and write about all the stuff Dave and I have been up to, but I wanted to quickly share the photos we have taken for those of you who haven't already seen them on Facebook. The link to the photos is below. It's been about 9 days and we have already seen Bangkok, Krabi, Koh Lanta, Au Nang, Phuket, and Chiang Mai.

Tomorrow we will add Chiang Rai to that list for an overnight adventure to get my visa stamped (allowing me 14 more days in Thailand) and to see the White Temple. After that, we will be returning to Chiang Mai for two nights to celebrate Songkran, which is the Thai new year. This is also referred to as "the water festival", and involves everyone soaking each other with water in the streets for 5 days straight. The idea is that we are all washing each other of the past year to bring in a clean, new one filled with good luck.

Methods include everything from super-soaker water guns (which have been sold in the streets all week, even 7-11 has them for sale) to huge buckets of water, and even hoses dragged out to street corners. It's only the 11th, and already we have been shot at many times walking down the street today. It's all in good fun, and we even purchased a couple plastic water-proof money/camera/phone holders today just to play it safe.

The actual new year day is the 14th, and we have been warned that all hell breaks loose in the city by that time. Nobody is safe, and we will be soaked. Today we had to make the decision of spending the new year outside the city square (where all the fun is) in a fancy air-conditioned room, or spend the same money for a less fancy fan-room in the middle of all the Sangkran action. We decided a nicer room wasn't as important and booked the room in the middle of the city. We were sold once we saw the balcony overlooking the street below, because we will have full access to shoot all pedestrians (only the ones participating in the festival of course- no elderly) with water as they walk unsuspecting down the street. YES.

Here is a link to our pictures thus far: Thailand: Dave Edition