Songkran

It's Songkran, the biggest Thai holdiday of the year; a 4-day water festival, or water fight.  Folks have gone home, so the streets of Bangkok are relatively empty.  In place of the usual traffic jams, groups of youth cruise the streets on motorbikes while others pile in the back of pickup trucks, armed with buckets of water and big squirt guns.  Their targets are others who line the streets waiting to throw water and a white mud paste on anybody they can, including the hapless folks who are simply trying to travel on the back of one of the open trucks that serve as buses on smaller streets.  It's actually a fun atmosphere, although of course there is quite a bit of drinking which can cause problems.

We went to a water park today, but will get in on some of the other "festivities" later.  I will try to get a couple of shots from the safety of a car to give you a better idea.

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Dave Anderson
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Reply #4 on : Sun April 15, 2007, 17:59:14
Wow - that sounds like fun. I was in Thailand in 95 with a missionary named Tommy Tillman. It was SO HOT I would have thanked God if someone would have hosed me down with a super soaker. We did some mission work for Orphans and people with Leprosy.

You have an incredible mission there. Thank you for sharing with with us in Alabama and we will be praying for you. I only have a few readers but I introduced them to you on my blog today. (http://moviepastor.typepad.com)

Found you through Scott Hodge's blog. Rock On!

God Bless!
jlarson
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Reply #3 on : Sat April 14, 2007, 14:07:33
Thanks so much for your kind words. May God bless you too! I look forward to hearing from you again.
Ben Hammond
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Re: Songkran
Reply #2 on : Sat April 14, 2007, 04:44:16
You know, I never got to see this festival... I heard about it before I went... I left before it started... and then I heard about it again when I got home. And another year goes by just to here about it again. You know, someday I'm going to have to see it. OOO! I wonder if I can find some videos on youtube! Oh, I Jim!

I'm off to youtube...
rindy
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Reply #1 on : Sat April 14, 2007, 03:51:23
I stumbled onto your blog and I can't stop reading! Kudos to you for reaching out. I am very interested in your posts and all that you are doing...way to go. May God bless you and those you are reaching. I'll be back...