We're back in Bangkok, just in time for the Songkran Festival - the Thai New Year. They celebrate by having a huge country-wide water fight for 4 days or so. This means lots of Thai adolescents with water guns and buckets of water blissfully drenching everyone that passes by on the street. They also have a tradition of smearing a clay-like substance all over you as you pass - particularly on your face. Beth and I quickly realized that resistance is futile, and now just smile as they shout "Happy New Year" at us while drenching us with ice cold water and applying clay masks to our faces. Because of the New Year everything is closed, and will be until Monday or Tuesday, when we leave for Hong Kong. Unfortunately our tickets to Nairobi from Hong Kong were canceled since we aren't at a location to receive paper tickets (which is apparently all the airline accepted according to STA travel), so we had to find different tickets and pay $150 more, but we have them now, so I guess that's that. We found a cheap backpacker's safari company in Kenya called Wild Rovers Africa LTD, which opperates from a hostel, so we're really excited about that. I can't wait to see all the animals (particularly giraffes) in the Serengeti. We're here in Bangkok until we leave Thailand on the 17th with pretty much nothing to do. We're hoping to get away from Kho San Rd and see some more of Bangkok, maybe a Muai Thai fight or something. Not sure what's open because of the holiday, but we'll see.