The King's Birthday

Hello, Well to everyone's relief especially the tourists that were stuck here, the airport is now open. Apparently all the political problems are over for a while. Yesterday was the King's Birthday, a huge event in all of Thailand. Bangkok has a huge parade, concerts, fireworks, and in general total chaos. Anyway, we took a boat taxi down to the parade.

After the parade we walked around for about three hours in the biggest crowds I have ever been in. I mean to say there were people everywhere doesn't really explain it. Basically there is someone touching you on all sides. We did manage to eat some good street food and we finally tried the fried bugs. Here is some video of that.





After walking around forever, we finally found a little free space to sit down on. So we sat in the grass in this area right by Grand Palace to wait for the fireworks. All of a suddent the Thai people started standing up, so naturally we stood up to. Then, they started singing, we unfortunately could not participate. Then, the fireworks started. It was pretty cool. I have video of this too, it's the best video by far.




After the fireworks we decided to walk around some more. Basically they had four stages in which you could hear all four at one time. Not to mention the fact that there are people everywhere. So one stage has dancing and singing, one stage has a band playing, one stage/ring was Muay Thai Boxing, (really cool), and the last stage was someone screaming (we could never figure out that one) Here is a video of what it was like.