After breakfast we got our bag ready and water pistols filled, we then met Dave and Kim at around 10.00am. It's Thai New Year starting today so it will be the first day of huge water fights in the town. We got a swangtheaw into the town here on Ko Lanta called Saladan apparently this is where most of the action is going to be. We had a feeling we were a little early but this gave Dave and Kim chance to buy water pistols too. We had bought them tiny pistols but when you saw the size of the ones everyone else was buying they needed larger guns! Also it gave James chance to get to a pharmacy about his toe, he got a course of antibiotics and some cream. At around midday most people had come out to play and were armed with a water pistol of some kind. Pretty much all of the shops in town had large dustbins outside with hose pipes in them constantly filling with water. You could just stop at any of them to re fill your gun. We stayed a little time at one or two, these were in great places in order to get people passing by. No one was safe, even people riding scooters had buckets thrown straight at them. As it progressed ice deliveries were being made to these shops with water outside. As much as it was a massive shock to get shot with ice water (or worse, drenched in it) it was also great to see people's faces when you had it too! The ferry dropped people off mid afternoon and they caught swangtheaw's which had to come through town. They were soaked along with their luggage! People going to catch the ferry later on too got wet, one Scottish guy though got very angry and threatened to fight people who wet him and his luggage. Now I said no one was safe but driving through town with a very serious face, shaking your hand as if to say no seemed to work for quite a few people. The Scottish guy just went about it completely wrong. We had spend hours in town and it was getting towards 5pm and we decided we'd had enough and being dry sounded really good, so we got in a tuk tuk. It was one with a bike on one side and a cart thing added to the side which the four of us only just got into. It was struggling quite a lot up some of the hills, but the guy just kept tapping his bike and saying good bike. There was a really big hill, there was no chance we were making it up here so when the bike came to a stop and began to roll backwards the driver signalled James to get out to try and balance the weight better. Well with James getting out the whole thing tipped backwards! The driver caught his leg between the bike and the cart, Dave and Kim were squashed at the back and I squashed Kim. James helped us out and then we all pushed the thing the right way up and the guy drove it empty to the top of the hill. We were all quite shaken but the only injuries we got were I got a small glass Smirnoff ice bottle hit me on the head, luckily it didn't break, and Dave got quite a big cut on one of his big toes! It could have been a lot worse though. We decided after this to walk the rest of the way as non of us really wanted to get back in. We set off but it must have been a couple of kilometers at least to our hotels. James' toe was really hurting him by now and probably shouldn't have walked that far. Also the songkran festival was still going on so as we were walking we were still getting drenched, we weren't as enthusiastic about the water fights after what just happened. When we got back we were in desperate need of a shower and a sit down, we felt much better after that. We had packing to do tonight too as we'll get the flight to Chiang Mai tomorrow and with it still being Songkran we are packing everything into plastic bags just in case anything gets wet we're safe. After this we met back up with Dave and Kim to have something to eat, they also agreed to take some things home with them for us, that makes us a tiny bit lighter and saves us posting anything. They gave us their working water pistol for Chiang Mai because they said they wouldn't use it and we said good bye.