first of all HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAADDDD! I kind of remembered it was around now!!! The new year festival here (songkran) lasts 3 days. So after my last journal entry, things got a bit serious with the old water fighting. The next day half of thailand descended on the tiny street we were saying on! We went to meet some friends at 7 pm but didn't meet them till 11 pm it was so crowded. Unconscious people and small children were being passed out of the crowds and it was fairly distressing. We took refuge in McDonalds for about 30 minutes while the crowds died down as they has to stop the music to control them. It was fairly scary to be honest. Every time we walked along the street, Thai people would rub handfuls of clay into our face (and eyes... hurt so bad) and we were special targets as we were foreigners. To be honest it was probably the WORST time I have had away so far and was close to punching many a Thai person in the face!!!! ARGH!!! Well we me my friends up at 11 pm and went to an Irish Bar then went back to their hotel at 2 am and went swimming in their pool. Very nice! They had to go and catch a flight to Bali at 2 pm the next day but the last time I saw them they were in a shopping center at 12 pm so not sure if they made the flight! haha So we had to leave that area of Bangkok as it was just onstant water fighting and clay in face, otherwise we would have had to stay in our guest house for three solid days! So yesterday we went and stayed in a HOTEL!! The Bangkok Inn because we were so so tired and filthy so we all stayed in bed all day and watched movie after movie and slept like little logs! We have also been to the Bangkok Weekend Market where we spent small fortunes. You could buy anything there including some baskets full of kittens and puppies. Rhia didnt believe they were real at first as they were all cuddeled up very still. They were very cute but its sad seeing them all lying there. I have just left Tasha and Rhia in bed, we are all still so so tired from he whole water festival thing that we are zombies walking around plus all my clothes are covered in chalk or damp!! nooooooooo!!!!! Happy Easter one and all! Enjoy a nice chocolate egg for me!!!!