I'm in the future!! HAPPY 2554 SONGKRAN!

Sorry everyone, i realize i haven't been up to date on my postings for a while. But have no fear, i am alright, despite heightened political riots and tensions in bangkok, i am far away from any danger. That is unless you consider being drenched by water, pummled by it being propelled in every possible direction over and over again for the last three days a battle zone, then yes, i am in the line of fire! But seriously, this is THE greatest holiday EVER!!! everyone just expects to get wet, and you can't do anything about it, and when i say wet, it is completely soaked. YOu never thought this would be said, but because of the ice cold water some people have in the back of their pick up trucks, you actually end up with goosebumps, GOOSEBUMPS people! in the middle of the hottest month...in THAILAND! Who would have thought? But on my travels up north we took a side trip to the small provinces of Phrae and Nan, two rarely seen areas by tourists, and we where some of the very select white people there. Phrae was very quaint, and i stumpled upon a large group of red shirts watching as their party leader made a speech in bangkok from a large screen...i sat down wiht them and they offered me so much, again i was a celebrity, but the beautiful thing was is how truly lovely these people are. i'll share more on that later. but Nan was, to me, Thailand's DaLat, quaint people, many from working tribes and lands, sincere and eager to help us out, and for us to help teach them some things. THere were two increadible wats here; one completely out of white stone and the other housed 100 year old paintings on the inside. Some of them still very much in-tact, and others sharing only small remnnants of what once was.