Well we made it to bangkok against all odds. Apparently if you are flying from Samoa to Thailand via Sydney you still have to get an Australian visa. On the flight from Sydney to Bangkok the crew over served some jack ass in first class and then when he was harrassing the first classers they decided to move him back to economy class and guess where the only free seats were? So after spending the last 2 hours of our 8 hour flight being called a bitch and having this drunk jerk-off reach around his seats to our seats and knock our food off our trays and sexually harrass us and shout racial slurs as the egyptian family behind us AND throw pillows and magazines and the flight attendants we finally landed. (Side note- the crew did bring out hang cuffs at one point but didnt want to put them on the dude because then he would atomatically have to go to jail upon landing for 2 months and since he was a first class flyer that would just be bad for buisness). Anywho, we stumbled into bangkok and somehow manged to find our hostel and internet (had to let mom know i was alive). Walking back from the internet cafe that night we saw an elephant walking in the traffic with a blinking light on its tail. Ahh Thailand (reference to the movie "Volunteers" circa 1980s tom hanks/john candy making fun of peace corps in thailand...must see it if you haven't).
Saturday we awoke unsure what day it was or where the hell we were, but knowing that there was shopping to be done! Oh and it was my birthday. So we spent the day shopping at the weekend market and then had a couple drinks that night to celebrate the quarter century.
We are trying as hard as we can to pretend that jag lag doesnt happen to people like us, but im not gonna lie today was a bit of a struggle. We went back to the weekend market of a few hours because really, its just that awesome. I mean seriously this place is HUGE! And they have everything you could ever want! The down side is that Asians are tiny and after a year of eating taro and coconut cream i am not. There fore none of the clothes fit but between sefa and myself i think we have bought about 45 bags...whatever they cost like 3usd a piece...and they make us feel pretty.
After more market shopping we came back to our side of town and treated our selves to thai massages. amazing. Now we are heading back to the airport to fly to chaing mai in the north of thailand to meet up with my good friend doug young (from wisconsin) his girlfriend and a couple of peace corps volunteers from thailand (Go peace corps GO!) for new years. Life is a highway. Happy new years!
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1. Please tell me the airline so I can avoid it in future.
2. You should write letter to the airline. No reason why you
should have had to babysit this creep. I have often wondered
whether jerks like this have wives and daughters since they obviously
don't think of other women as someone else's wives and daughters.
Congrats on your restraint.
3. Went to Chiang Mai about 30 years ago. Don't remember much
about it, except that I liked it very much. Maybe when you get
back you can remind me why I found it so appealing.
Happy New Year.
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