Happy Thai New Years! Ohhhh Sooo Wet!!!!

Throughout our extensive planning for the trip, we never managed to notice that the Thai New Year is recognized in the middle of April.  The Thai New Year is celebrated by everyone standing in the middle of the street dousing each other with sea water and chalk powder for three days.  This was a lot of fun for about 45 minutes, but it made doing a lot of things on the island very difficult.  This includes going to get diarrhea pills without getting soaked, taking a backpack anywhere without getting soaked, and getting the hell off of the island.  So, we decided to stick around Koh Chang for a few more days and show the Thais how we American boys get down.

We took an all day snorkel cruise that stopped at four different islands.  There were lots of colorful fish to be seen, but we preferred to take pictures of ourselves.

Above is an action shot of Max coming down for a smooth landing after throwing a gainer off the top of the snorkel boat.

Please note that the cigarette is "just for show", and Andrew neither smokes nor condones the smoking of cigarettes.  Also, the flab on his stomach is solely due to his posture in the picture.  His stomach is actually much sexier looking than the above picture portrays.

 Three party bros enjoying a few minutes in the shade.  Unfortunately, these were the only minutes in the shade, and two of us no longer have skin on our shoulders.

We had to buy some squirt guns and makeshift water bombs in order to protect ourselves from crazy Thais while walking around the island.  It was all in good fun until we got drenched in water while on a taxi to get off the island.  This resulted in a loud "F U!!!" from Andrew along with the necessary middle finger gesture.  I'm sure the Thais knew it wasn't personal...

After getting off the island, we spent a night in the God forsaken town of Trat.  The nicest building in the town was a KFC, which we obviously went to for dinner.  We then left the next morning and took a 6 hour bus ride to the Cambodian border.  The bus ride was pleasant aside from the driver stopping every 4 minutes to let people on/get soda pops/play with his friends who were throwing buckets of water at the bus.  Anyways, we are now in the lovely country of Cambodia where everything is paid for in US dollars, and you can rent a slave for as little as $15 a day.  Our slave is named Meta.