Happy Thai New Year!

I've had the pleasure of celebrating three different new year's days in the past four and a half months, and I have to say, in my professional and objective opinion, applying my analytical expertise as a casual cultural ambassador, Thai new year's is absolutely the superior new year's party.

Between the ages of about eight and ten I was engaged in a long-running water gun conflict with my uncle in Louisiana, purchasing larger and larger water guns every time I visited and working out newer and more surreptitious attack plans. Songkran is sort of like my eight-year old self's thrill experienced a million fold for three days straight. Imagine a whole country of children and parents and teenagers and elderly, all filled with the glee that comes from dumping a bucket of water on someone's head. It's a nationwide, three-day water fight, and it's amazing.

Happy Songkran!

Surreptitiously yours,
Rebecca