Bangok

So after a looong flight, we finally arrived into BKK, Bangkok. The first flight was about 14 hours, and due to an older plane, the entertainment factor was quite slim. Sadly, the highlight was High School Musical 2, which was the only movie worth watching of the 2 they played. I tried a couple glasses of wine but that just made me feel sick and not be able to sleep. However, the flight went surprisingly fast, and after a quick stint in Taipei, we got an AMAZING AND AWSOME plane to Bangkok. There were 60 channels, movies, audio, and video games. I watched TV, ate, called my friend in the seat next to me via our seat phones... it was a blast! If only the first 14 hours were as nice. Bangkok has been good to us so far. We opted to brave taking a bus from the airport and saving money, so we headed to the station below the airport and waited for our bus. Surprisingly (or not) it was full of tourists only all going to the same street, Th Khao San. This the THE tourist pull, but we got off and were determined to walk to find a little hostel. We met a kid names Bailey from Northern California and he had a recommended place so we followed him to it. The hostel is called KC guesthouse and worked fine for us. We took a double room, but then asked if he wanted to sleep on the "couch" and so we're now sharing a room with AC for 6 dollars a person a night. Not too bad.

The street food is PHENOMONAL, mainly the pineapple. It's about 20 baht for a whole one, which is about 60 cents. It is so fresh and sweet and they cut it up right there for you. Then there are the noddles, and banana pankakes and more fruit and eggs over rice. Who doesn't love street food (keeping away from the fried stuff, of course). So far it has been good.

The first night we lived it up a little too hard, and went to bed at about 9pm. We were all so exhasted we didn't make it late at all. Then we slept for about 12 hours, but I was up bright and early at 7 am, showered in the cold water and then just lay around, because it's still tiring from all the travel and no sleeping on the planes.

Today we explored a little bit of Bangkok, going to the Golden Palace and the Siem Square and possibly Chinatown later and then over to Patpong for some nightlife and entertainment. As of now, the people are great, and laugh histerically when we try our thai, and offer to help us learn words, however complicated, which we forget immediatlely, of course.

Ohhh, the weather! Thailand is HOT AND HUMID AND HORRIBLE. no it's not. it's perfect. it's not really hot or humid, it's cool in the night... we hit the good season. i don't want to know the hot season, because this is perfect. I love it. We are excited to get down to Ban Phe and have a place to call home for 4 weeks. We're near fluent in Thai. Love you all

Rob

Yet another Blog...

Well,

Since it looks like Ill be doing little blogs for the family (Diane, Nancy) everywhere I seem to end up... This is the latest and greatest fantastic fun-filled breath-taking bounty of blogwork. As always, I dont know how much I'll be able to update this, but I should be able to access it once and a while.

In case you dont know, I have decided to move to Thailand and teach English for the next 7-12 months.