I've got lots of photos from our trip to Phuket and Bangkok - it was fantastic. Not much time for any photo correction so you'll get the basics but at least they'll be online. We arrived in Bangkok right before the Thai New Year, aka Songkran, aka the Water Festival. It's basically just how it sounds - lots of water and lots of celebrating! Two friends from Kabul met us in BKK the first night and we had a great dinner to celebrate my birthday. One of our friends was PCS'ing back to the US but we managed to convince her to stay just one last day to celebrate the New Year. She was glad for it and so were we.
We headed to Khao San road (the infamous backpacker district) where we joined the thousands of Thais and foreigners in a huge street party. There was music, drinks, delicious food, and torrential water beatings. We had purchased water guns along the way and while we put up a good fight, the buckets of ice water won every time. Aside from the water, there was a clay paste that (mostly Thais) were rubbing on people's faces. Since we'd watched 'No Reservations: Thailand' prior to our trip, we knew to expect this and thus my knee-jerk reaction to smack any stranger who touches my face and neck was suppressed.
One low point to the day was the pickpocketing of our new digital waterproof camera. These photos belong to a friend since, duh, all our photos were gone. Luckily, we had so much fun that even the thief didn't spoil our day. Also lucky? That we found a good deal the next day on a replacement waterproof camera (we knew we'd snorkel in Phuket and want to take pictures) for about $100.
P.S. This marks our third New Year party this year (Western, Afghan, and Thai).
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