Friday, June 20, 2008
Bangkok
After 30 long hours of traveling, we made it to Bangkok! Well actually I can't complain too much, I pretty much slept the whole time. I love you Ambien. We made it here without any hitches really. We made all our flights, only had one screaming baby from Austin to LA, and it was pretty much smooth sailing from there. We met two awesome guys on our flight that are spending a year in Chiang Mai and told them we would meet them in a month when we were in the north of Thailand. I suprisingly have no jet lag, I think sleeping on the plane saved me the pain although I can't say the same for Catherine. We went to the Grand Palace and Wat Pho today, only took one tuk tuk and it didn't even kidnap us. It took us straight to where we wanted to go and I don't even think we paid too much. We've been very lucky so far. We set up the rest of our week in Thailand this morning. We fly out really early tomorrow morning to Ko Tao for two nights. I'm super excited about Ko Tao because the scuba diving is supposed to be amazing. We had street food for lunch, awesome Pad Thai, although I'm not sure I will be able to convince Catherine and her friend into street food too many more times...something about not being able to read the menu makes them uncomfortable I think.
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Glad you got everything set up. On yahoo news this morning, the headline is "Thousands of demonstrators protesting in Bangkok" Schools and government offices were encouraged to close. I was concerned that you might not be able to set up the rest of your stay. You probably didn't even see the demonstrators just like it was when I was in Paris and the media was showing all the riots on TV. I never say anything! Have some more street food for me. Mom
i'm glad you made it safe & sound. i once read somewhere that street food is safer than restaurants, so tell baggett that... my rule is: if the locals eat it, i can too.
have fun be safe wear sunscreen, etc.
love&miss/besos!
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