We Have Arrived
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Well let me start with the plane ride over. Normally I can sleep like a baby on a plane; however we were not so lucky this trip. We had two young ladies sitting in front of us who thought that plane rides were just another place to party. They seemed to have a great time. But none of the passengers around them seemed to hold the same enthusiasm they did for the ride. After they were told off by the guy in front of them and the stewardess several times. They finally seemed to pass out for a while and let others sleep. This was great but only getting 2 hours of sleep on the plane made it pretty hard to stay up once we got here. Unfortunately Jared didn’t get any sleep at all! L
So now let’s talk about the taxi over. For all of you that have been to Bangkok you will know just what I am talking about here. We go to the desk for metered taxi. Get in a cab that they provide and then the taxi driver does not want to turn on the meter. He tells us, I have done this trip many times and it cost 500 baht. So why don’t you just say 500 baht and I don’t have to turn on the meter. After some argument he finally turned the meter on. I bet you will never guess how much it came to when we made it to our destination. 240 baht. WOW! Really this man has done this trip many times and he does not know how much it will cost. Well we were kind of nice and gave him 300 for almost killing us 10 times on the way over. This man used medians, tried to run over motor bikes, did not seem to understand when the guy In front of him was at a dead stop he was suppose to stop too. No that is not the way it worked in his world. He thought that if he just flashed his lights tons of times the man would move. So this is where people in Doha learned to drive.
Well we are now safe and sound in our hotel room and we are all booked for our train and ferry to Koh Tao on the 3rd. I can’t wait to get there!
Hello all this is Jared and here is my 2 cents! Okay flying is stupid; I really wish I got a prescription of Valium before flying!! OMG sitting in the back of the plane when you don’t like flying is awful. Needless to say I was happy when we finally made it. Okay now a word of advice, yes it might be romantic to just wing it when you travel and think okay I will just look for a room after we get there! It is not romantic, wow after a long flight and almost dying in a taxi, the last thing I wanted to do was look for a hotel in a place like Bangkok. So we paid more than we would of if we would have booked online. So screw the new sense of freedom you have by taking a this trip and at least get a room for the first night. You can then get your bearings! Okay granted it wasn’t like Maryanne and I had a hard time, it just would have been nice after a long sleepless flight.
We are both so thrilled to be here together, no job, no worries, just all smiles!!!
PS naps in the middle of the day ROCK!
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