Asia day 7. Transit to Bangkok

Woke up promptly at 7am, took a nice long shower in our rain drop shower. Then stopped at the bakery and grabbed a coconut bun, an egg and ham bun and the hotdog sweet bun before treking to the airport via trains. Once to got onto the airport express, I ended up sitting next to a nice brit. He looked up what terminal we needed to go to and told me about how he's worked in HK for 3 years as a broker and doesn't speak a lick of chinese. He was returning for his little sisters wedding and was really excited about it.

Got checked in no problem. Andrea had to check her bag because it weighs 13kg (limit is 7 for carryon. I was planning on checking anyway). Caught up with some last minute facebook, told ricardo to put an offer in on the 4br 4ba house off of the lightrail's 38th ave station (haven't seen the house, ricardo knows what I like as we've seen 30 houses together). And boarded our 3 hour plane to bangkok. Andrea passed out hard core against the window (per usual)

Landed 10 minutes late and customs was about 30 minute wait just because of the numerous amount of people. Made it through and found our hotel's pickup man just outside of our gate. He brought us right to our hotel's doorstep where we were greeted with fresh fruit juice and our room.

After dropping our bags andrea tried for 20 minutes to get on the wifi to figure out what we should do while in bangkok. No one could get the wifi working which was very frustrating. Finally I gave up asked for a map and asked the clerk where we should go. "Get out to busy road go right and find river" sweet. We meandered the streets which were covered in vendors pushing carts of deep fried food, fresh cut fruits and random crappy trinkets.

Walked along a closed market and found ourselves to the river. A group of people was just about to board. I spotted two foreign dudes asked them where they were going (china town, randaswenger road) and they said we should join. One-will- is a brit working in australia. Cory- cali dude- is on the tail end of his 6 month se asia trip. Both were just coming back from the embassy getting their burma visas. Mom and I had to spot 30 baht (1$ equivalent) from one of them as we only had 1000baht bills. Then I told him for spotting us wed buy him a beer. We found our way to the street filled with foreigners, carts, and market like atmosphere. Will went back to drop off his passport and check his email so cory mom and I grabbed pad thai's and an ice cold chang on the street side. The thing about chang is the % is not regulated. 2 can knock your socks off. After dinner cory wanted to drop his passport off and we shopped the shops while shooting the crap. Ended up down this connecting street and saw these gorgeous pictures of one of the south islands of thailand. Ther picture was split in 3. The dude wanted 600 bahts (20$) but cory talked him down to 500 bahts. Now we just need to figure out how to get those home.... Minor details.

Cory mom and I walked the streets and out of no where will walks up behind us! Hey guys! So then we went to an irish place where we spent the rest of the night. Played some pool. Then mom and I caught a 70 baht taxi ride right to our doorstep. (3 $ and it was about a 1/2 hour ride). Passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile