Luang Probang and Pi Mai

4/13/2011
-Woke up, ate a crepe, standard routine...
-Hung out with Colin, Clay, and Beer at the guest house.
-walked around a bit, Pi Mai was starting up, already people were outside of their houses blasting music, drinking, and throwing wat
had some squirtgun fights with some kids, and lots of lao girls and girly boys dumped water on me.
-Grabbed dinner at the night market and ate at the guest house, half a roasted chicken and sticky rice, also home made potato chips.
-Headed out with Beer and his friends, colin and clay stayed at home, first to a freind's birthday party, where there was cake and Kareoke, we went out to Star Bar, i was the only Falong in the place, had a few beers, some dancing. the interior of the bar was all back and covvered with elaborate styrofoam carvings painted in flourescent colors and under black light.
-when we arrived there was a live band, which was pretty good, and then a DJ, Beer dragged me on stage to DJ, but i didn't know the  most of the music they had, and what i did know was the worst of American pop. So we agreed that i'd come back the next night with my hard drive.
Rode back to the guest house and to bed. Had a different room this time, much cheaper, but still very nice, one of the best i've had.
4/14/2011
-the first official day of Pi Mai, Beer and his friends were doing tatoos with henna hair dye, and i did a big sharpie sleeve of paternwork on one kid, turned out good.
-then we set up on the main street to wait for the parade, Beer set up big speakers and i DJed on the street for maybe 3 hours, while there was a waterfight all around me.
-The parade was cool, lots of elephants going to the main monastary in town and drummers playing in front, recordings on Earsphere today 
-Then to a sand bank in the Mekong where they had erected a small tent city the past three days. there were three stages with music surrounded by vendors selling food and beer lao, all along the banks of the sandbar the Lao people were building big mounds of sand, decorated with flowers and covered in Flour. The sand bar was full of people, on either side of the tents was a crush of people flowing both directions, everyone throwing flour and river water at everyone they passed. Beer had an old pump action water sprayer, which had some serious power, all the people sitting and eating that we passed he soaked, it was pretty funny.Also Beer had a military canteen full of lao lao and a hollow horn, he kept feeding everybody lao lao all day.
-Colin bought a case of beer lao, because there were no cups, we filled a bucket with ice and beer and passed it around. some how i wound up with a rediculous hat, and we went dancing to the Keyboard Kareoke set up, i traded my hat with people maybe three times. a lot of fun being in a big crush of people all dancing their asses off sharing a big bucket of beer. after a while dancing we went to catch a boat back, but wound up spending maybe 20 minutes dunking one another in the Mekong.
-walked around for a bit, had some more waterfights, then went to bathe in the mekong because there was no more water in the tap.
-mellowed out at the guesthouse, ate some dinner, went to bed early, drinking all day.