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Thai New Year Celebration with my Thai family

I decided to take a side trip back to Thailand to visit my brother's wife and her family over the Thai New Year, called the Sangkran festival. The holiday is traditionally celebrated as one big waterfight! It is the hottest time of the year, the crops are all in, so everybody parties in the streets and tries to get everyone as wet as possible. Pen (my sister in law) and her family have been wonderful to me- feeding me, introducing me to everybody and showing me around (and showing me off!) It has been a wonderful time!
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On the Thai side of the border crossing
On the Thai side of the border crossing		 My greeting committee- I was surprised when six people showed up to greet me- they drove about 5 hours to get me!
My greeting committee- I was surprised when six people showed up to greet me- they drove about 5 hours to get me!		 My bike in the truck
My bike in the truck
Yum- the fried bug special for lunch (no, I didn't try it!)
Yum- the fried bug special for lunch (no, I didn't try it!)		 More bugs...
More bugs...		 Automated prayer machine- pick the day of the week you were born, put in the coin, and the recorded monk gives you a blessing!
Automated prayer machine- pick the day of the week you were born, put in the coin, and the recorded monk gives you a blessing!
Meeting the inlaws
Meeting the inlaws		 Pens mother is in the back in blue, and the other two ladies are neighbors- it's a very tight-knit community
Pens mother is in the back in blue, and the other two ladies are neighbors- it's a very tight-knit community		 Another neighbor- Tim (after a beer or three)
Another neighbor- Tim (after a beer or three)
Pen's mother's house near Maha Sarakham, Thailand
Pen's mother's house near Maha Sarakham, Thailand		 Walking to the neighborhood temple for a New Year's ceremony
Walking to the neighborhood temple for a New Year's ceremony		 At the temple
At the temple
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