Last days of Pi Mai

4/15/2011
-woke up early, had to move to a different, more expensive, shittier guest house. waited for two hours for the korean girls staying there to leave and let them turn the room. all the while the entire staff of the guest house sat outside drinking.
-after i settled into my new room, almost made it to my crepe spot without getting wet, lots of strategic street crossings... but wound up getting outflanked and completely soaked by a large group of kids about 15 feet away from the crepe stand. soaked again after eating. 
-beer and friends were setting up when i got back, hung out on the street with them for a while throwing water and folks, went for a  wander to see what was happening around town, assuming the second day would be more wild then the first, i was not dissappointed, by the time i got back though, soaked to the bone, my everybody had gone to the waterfall, so i decided a solo venture was in order.
-went back out into the street, bought a two beers, stopped in the police station when i saw they were all gathered there drinking, gave them one of my beers and did a hearty cheers. before heading back out onto the street, to get my face covered in black cooking grease, orange and blue paint, and my beard filled with so much rice flower it was completely white, not to mention getting my body completely soaked. ran into my friends from the 13th they were outside their store, armed with blackened cooking pots and a large basin full of water. There was a constant stream of pick up trucks full of drunken soaked kids, coming by where we were standing.
-in order to really get people good in the trucks one has to jump on the back before dumping yr bucket or smearing black grease on somebody, in the process of leaping on and off the back of the slow moving trucks i tore the sole completely off of my shoe
-when the traffic started to slow around 5 made my way home partially barefoot. got lots of smiles from everybody around
-showered, put on dry clothes, and met up with colin and clay for another night market dinner.
-went to bed early