Songkran

I'm back....covered in beer-water, ice, holy-water, random buddhist tiger balm powder, klong (dirty canal runoff), sweat from hundreds of people...and more! You think they'll let me through airport check-in or quarantine me? 
SONGKRAN WAS AMAZING! It was a fantastic way to end my time here and totally is going to make me more depressed as I hop on that plane tomorrow thinking of how fun Thailand is. Chiangmai was definitely the spot to go it was packed with people all throwing water for the Thai New Year. You had everything from extremely drunk party-ers, to families from their small villages with buckets of water and seven kids in a truck bed. The kids seemed to have the most fun and loved being hit when you squirted them with water guns. *We went all out and got these kiddie guns with refilling backpacks in animal characters*
For the die hards Songrkan festival actually started Tuesday that week when we got here. Our Song-Tao taxi driver purposely slowed down for kids to jump on the back and bucket us with water and would weave through residential streets where he knew kids would be celebrating early. We were soaked a full day in advance because of his 'skills', hahaha. Everyone wanted to touch or soak a 'farang' - 'gringo' - 'white person' just for kicks too. So we were sought after targets.
Its a bittersweet ending here 'khom-wan' if you will...I'll definitely be depressed and missing Goi and everyone here for a while but I can't wait to see some of you soon!!! :)
A little taste of songkran: 
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150214337074747