21/4/2007 - Songkran and more

Thai Newyear, the 13th of april. Just one day after my arrival back on the Rock. Aslo called the waterfestival.

April is the hottest month in Thailand, so getting wet is not an issue. Only this year most of the water came from above. But, the party kept on going.

As soon as you get out of your bungalow you are getting wet by your neighbour, best friend or the owner of the resort. It's the best party and everybody is a child again (ok, kids shouldn't combine it with alcohol, adults do a lot on this day). Trucks are passing by with many people on it, making people wet by taking buckets with water out of big buckets on the truck.

Kids standing on the side of the street with the biggest water guns and also the oldest are enjoying the ****. Even my father started liking the festival  and shot some people. And for the first time in her life my mother asked if someone had seen her gun. We had cold water and with cold water everybody is afraid of you. You are the master with cold water and so was my mum. 

At about 2 pm the party at Simple Life starts. The whole island gathers there and people are dancing, getting rougher in the 'making each other wet' thing and taking a rest in the sea, sipping along on their buckets with alcohol.

Take a look at the pics on Esnips (link at my profile, under my photo)

For me, Songkran was even more of a party. I met all the lovely people from Koh Tao and I had the warmest welcome. It felt like a warm bath filled with love.

The day after Songkran I had a hangover.

The day after that I went diving for the first time after 8 months. Great to be back!!!

Jacq, Malu en Bjorn joined and many, many other divers (they spotted a whaleshark, we only saw divers and fins)

I assisted a German Open Water course and have more confident to speak now. Ich bin deine Tauchlererin. pffff.

It's great to have my parents with me here. Or maybe It's the other way around. They come here almost more than me. Luckely we still have 3 weeks before they temporarly go back to Holland.

Today I go on the motorbike to look for some houses for Debby and me. That's about it for today. My back got burned from snorkeling with sharks, so no sun for me....

Pfff, it took me about 3 hours to upload pics and make this story. Everything is slow here, so is internet.

xxx

Jazz

IT IS GREAT TO BE BACK!