Time stops during Songkran

It's been awhile....
Since my last post, I've come back to Thailand, via Bangkok (which went fine minus my confiscated scissors). We were here for a day or two before Songkran really got started. It's the water festival to celebrate the new year. Officially three days, in Chiang Mai, it's famous for going on for almost a week. The day before it officially began, we decided to start the festivities. We went to the Old City, bought water guns and got soaked. We quickly realized that buckets were the way to go, because there is a moat around the Old City. Thus, buy a bucket, and have a constant water supply (gross, dirty, and murky...but constant). The streets had a layer of water in them, and the cars that went around the moat moved at about 5 mph max. We met some Swiss guys who were really having fun, and teamed up with them. We threw buckets of water on everyone, and targeted the people who looked dry. It sounds mean, but it's not. Everyone's doing it, and no one is dry. People carry their money and phones in plastic bags, and stay inside if they don't want to get wet. I dropped my bucket in the moat a couple times, and Jacquie jumped in to save it, and later on Ben (one of the Swiss), saved it. The guys also had a garbage can they would fill with water and a huge super soaker. Awesome.
The downside? Moat water smells horrible, and you get hit in the face with ice cold water...a lot.
We spent five hours throwing water into song taos (red trucks people use to get around), and at motorcycles and pedestrians.
It was 5:30pm, and Hailey was like "can we go?"
I think we had left around 11am, and I wasn't even ready to go home.
At night, we go out dancing, and there is a huge influx of tourists during Songkran. We met a lot of people, and had a blast.
Unfortunately, now it's time to work on papers, and get things done. Songkran is officially over.