12/04: The, really wet, blessing "ceremony" has begun!

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Forget what we said yesterday about getting a bit wet...today the action really begun! Hundreds of people gathering around the old moat with waterguns, buckets, hoses,...anything which is remotely functional as a water propelling device. :-) So the instant we got to where the action was taking place we bought ourselves a couple of buckets with a string attached to it for throwing and fetching it full of water from the ponds/moat/barrels of water scattered around town. After that...we got wet, very wet and had loads of fun! Throw water at everyone to bless them & recieve a blessing in return...pretty basic...for some reason some fill their buckets with icecubes/blocks so the water is freezing cold when it hits you, luckily they don't throw around the ice itself...had a couple of shocks from time to time today ;-) The action is mostly concentrated along The Pae Gate where all passing traffic (cars, moto, taxi, tuktuk,...) gets absolutelly bashed with water from the sides. A lot of blessing a lot of good luck for the new year? Taxi's really get a bashing cause people are 'trapped' inside, but you can throw water inside from everywhere. All this fun is good for us, this way we get to celebrate NY a 3rd time this year after ours & Tet! When we got back to our GH we treated ourselves to some more water in the "spaceshower"...just watch the album.