Happy Thai New Year

As my ear pain subsided last night, I decided that I was ready to leave the hotel room for the first time in three days. We decided to go out to dinner and, on our way back from a delicious meal at a street stall, a bucket of cold water was thrown into my right ear. In a fair amount of pain, I rushed back to the hotel room immediately and took some more Aleve. Fortunately, I felt completely fine today and was finally ready to take part in the revelry that is Thai New Year. The tradition during the holiday of Songkran is to arm yourself with a water gun or a water bucket and run around the streets throwing water at people. It is a very festive time and everyone, young and old, is involved. The restaurants and shops have a few employees outside with a huge tub of water bucketing passersby on foot or in a tuk-tuk with H20. If the kids or teenagers get close to you, they will rub white paste on your face, arms, back and neck. It was very fun. We had a great vegetarian meal tonight and are signed up for cooking classes tomorrow morning.

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