Its raining its pouring...

and I don't think its going to stop.

A pic from the parade. So many pretty women, and dazzling costumes.

I am not in Pai... Promised more like Pie, then bye. Just so u know. Its a little hippy town, the main income of the town is tourism... So there are a lot of white ppl here, too. I try to do something different, and I end up doing the same things as everyone else. jeeze.

Oh well, Last night I stole myself a seat on the curb and actually watched most of the parade for the Loy Krathong. It was a very religious parade with beautiful dollied up Thai ppl on lit up floats, ppl with lanterns. Very cool. It was a little dangerous watching the parade... Because people all over the city were lighting mini hot airballoons that symbolize bad luck leaving u, and encouraging good luck for the winter season (still 30 degrees here thou). It was dangerous because they are made of paper and occationally the lanterns would catch on fire, or they would break sending flames/fire to land on ppl's heads. I only had ashes land on me. :P
The pic on the right - millions of flower things like these were placed in the city moats and river in memory of loved ones and to bring good luck from the year to come. (I wonder who has the job of cleaning up all the flowers/candles)

Dude... you lets 5 year old children play with firecrackers, and fireworks. There was a continuous supply of firecracker, fireworks and other noise making things going off until the wee hours of the morning. Me and this Thai chick walked into some kind of firework... I lost my hearing for a couple of minutes.

People were everywhere, dancing, singing, etc. It was awesome and I spend the evening with my friend from the previous night. I was surprised to run into Dave and Jazz on a random street while trying to find the river.

Overall an awesome night. This morning was a different story. I slept in because my alarm didn't go off at 6:30... I rushed around packing my shit, and I had little time for breakfast because we thought the bus left at 8 am to get to Pai. It didn't leave until 9... I could have slept an extra hour. The bus we sat on for 4 hours was the smallest tinies bus in the whole station and the road to Pai were very very very windy.

My head still hurts from all the noisy of last night, and I might be a little hungover. I am going to bed early tonight b/c tomorrow is trekking time. I will be off away from the internet for 3 or 4 days.

Later