Saturday, October 10, 2009

First day in Bangkok.




I'm now in Bangkok, and just arrived super late Friday night. Its been an adventure just getting here. First off, the flights went well, I even got first class from Seattle to Japan. Best moment on that flight was just after we'd gotten on the plane and sat down the desk agent got onto the plane and chewed Dalin and I out, as well as two other standby travelers for our dress.
"This is first class... not economy," she told us while looking down here nose, "you need to be wrinkle free and clean cut, and you," she looked at me here with total disgust, "are not clean cut."
I wanted to tell her, "Hey, I just shaved what more do you want?" but I felt that that would've been immature.
As far as Thailand goes, lodging is less then $2.50 for me a night and a meal is less then a dollar. I could go into an snooty sitdown place and maybe the price would go up to $3.00, maybe. We were told that it was Buddist day by many excited and helpful locals on the street on Saturday (10-11-2009) so I spent most of the day taking Tuk-Tuks around the city seeing gigantic Buddah after gigantic Buddah, and each one of these was surrounded by many not so gigantic Buddahs, with even more small Buddahs (they sure like Buddah). We also saw a team of Mui Tai guys practicing kickboxing, even though we were trying to find a free match that was apparently going on because of the holiday.
All in all though I don't think that Bangkok is going to be home for long, its dirty, crowded and loud, so while its fun for a bit its not my cup of tea.

2 comments:

  1. Yay Thailand! I am happy to see you blogging.

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  2. Jacob. I see you got a blog. That is soooooo exciting. How long are you planning on being gone?

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