Forever pruney

SONGKRAN

If you are any sensible thinking human being, you, along with I, know that New Years is the WORST holiday (Valentine's day coming in hot in second place, but at least there's the discounted chocolate that my mom buys in bulk on February 15th) But in Thailand it's different. None of this wearing a skin tight black and/or gold dress (seriously those are your only options) that shows off just how many cookies you snuck while grandma wasn't looking, convincing yourself that it's the holidays and you deserve it dammit!, while stumbling around in the sub freezing temperatures in heels that you bought specifically for this occasion but that you ultimately end up hiding in a bush while your friends promise you they will come back later for them having your boyfriend carry around for you because walking on two little sticks after pregaming for the $120 open bar *in case there's a line* is HARD. And then when the clock finally strikes midnight and you look around and see everyone getting a New Years kiss with the person standing closest to them their significant other, all you are dreaming about is making out with a jumbo slice of extra cheesy pizza and, if the planets are aligned, even some mozz sticks.


Or maybe that's just me...

^^^^^^^

Anyway.

The Thai New Year (Songkran) is way better. It falls sometime in mid-April and is basically a country-wide WATER FIGHT. 

^Chelsea with her first watergun...I think she ended up buying three in a four day span

You get to walk around drinking $1 beers while spraying people with water until you are shriveled up like a prune, and then drunk eat crepes and questionable looking meats on a stick and pass out. WHAT IS BETTER THAN THAT?!?!? NOTHING

^lost little boy I found on the street, or Chelsea Farrall?!? (water gun #2)

^no water gun for Chelsea

^water gun #3...

^Embracing the snaggle <3 <3

Strangers will also come up and rub white powder on your face/arms/body and I wish they wouldn't

^Why does this happen? I don't know

We celebrated Songkran in both Bangkok and Chiang Mai! However after four days of water constantly being poured on our heads, drinking every Chang 7/11 has to offer, and random people rubbing our faces with white powder (seriously stop doing that), we decided to retire our waterguns and hide out in our hostel until Songkran was over. Call us cultured!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESdtsVfxHho