As we road to cell group in the back of Pa’s (our contact) pickup truck things in town seemed normal, it was April 12, 2012 and we had heard how intense the Thai New Year’s celebration could get. All week we had seen how immense preparations were. After 8 months on The World Race we knew better than to have expectations, the only thing we knew was the festivities would have started by the time cell group ended.
appropriate supplies needed to drive into the thick of celebrations. As we loaded onto the two benches bolted in the back of the pickup Pa decided to kick off the New Year by spraying us with the water hose, our first of many attacks that night. At first it was shocking to see such small children toting
massive guns and then we would see the way they handled their guns and terror
would sink in. We were NOT prepared! We
had nothing more than the tub of ammo and it was not going to be adequate
protection. The children were too relentless. Right off the bat we knew that we
had to survive the night so we could stock up and go out the next day. We knew
we had to take arms and fight for those who could not fight for themselves.
After a few hours we were home safe.
We woke up the next morning and went to stock
up. Jenna and Madisson each purchased the largest guns sold while Bri and I
purchased smaller guns so we could also man the ammo bucket. 
The four of us left the store ARMED. In the short
distance from our contact’s house to the store and back we undertook some heavy
fire, but we made it back for lunch and “suiting-up”.
