Songkran
Festival
“Thai New Year or Songkran, also known as Songkran Festival, Songkran Splendours, is the Thai New Year’s national holiday. Songkran is on 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April.” – wikipedia
This is a city-wide celebration of the Thai new year. People celebrate by buying the biggest water guns they can find (sold everywhere right now) or standing on balconies and dumping buckets of water on the passersby below.
If you go on the street the 13th through the 15th you are giving your consent to be completely drowned by delighted participants. It doesn’t matter who you are, young or old, you will be hosed down or dumped on.
Our son, Brian, participated one year and that was enough for him. We plan to stay in, have food delivered, stock up on water so we don’t have to go out. I plan to watch from my bay window alcove in our air bnb when I can.
The only problem this year is that Brian and I will be traveling to the hospital and back each day during the festivities. I don’t know if we can call a Grab, wait on the street and get into the car without getting hosed. Hopefully, we can. Otherwise, it will be a long, cold day in wet clothes in the frigid hospital.
Maybe we should take backpacks wrapped in trash bags to have some dry clothes to change into…
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