Songkran Water Festival

April 12-15th is the old school Thai New Year's celebration. Really its just a good way to fight the humid peak of Summer so the whole country shuts down and parties by hosing people down. Everywhere you go there are people throwing water at you, but during the day its kinda refreshing. I got some lame squirt guns to fight back; next year I'm going to have to import some Super Soakers. I was riding my scooter and kids threw buckets of water at me. Good thing my visor was down as some got me flat in the face at speed. I couldn't get pics of the wetness riding, so these pics are from Soi Cowboy, the main gogo bar street.

People were getting wasted and wet, but they pretty much stop the wetness at night since people get cold. For some reason they like to smear baby powder on you too. The black guy is my buddy Karl from LA. He's trying but having a hard time getting a girlfriend, they all say "no, you have too big banana". Black man can't get a break anywhere.