SONGKRAN 2008

We are so glad to be home in Thailand for Songkran, the Thai Buddhist New Year's Celebration. Songkran creates absolute maddness in the streets because people are walking around with waterguns, buckets and free-flowing hoses: dousing each other all day long. All the water throwing is to symbolically wash your friends of their "sins" in preparation for the new year. We were hit by several drive by squirt gun shootings. To be honest, the shootings may not have been completely unprovoked (insert mischevious smile here). Even the police take a day off from their usual stoic perching on street corners to have a little fun.

Katie decided to take this holiday as an opportunity to wash the police of their sins of writing a particularily high speeding ticket to an unsuspecting, and completely innocent (of course) pair of foreign english teachers. Katie walked up to the police man and chucked a bucket of water at him, drenching his uniform thus thoroughly clearing him of all wrong-doings. It was a purifying and nearly religious experience for Katie too. Warning: Do not try this at home! American police wouldn't be so light hearted and fun loving. See the pictures below.