Greetings!!
I survived the longest plane rides EVER and I'm sitting in a hotel in Bangkok! How weird is that? I just had a great breakfast and we're about to head to the Cambodia border. From there, I'll only have internet at the safe haven, but I wanted to let everyone know that we made it and this is just amazing. I've mostly seen everything in the dark, but this morning just looking around, it's very interesting.
Right beside our table at breakfast, there was a Buddist shrine that a man was "fixing up" this morning. When people walk by it, they bow to it. You can smell the insence burning. It's interesting.
The 14 hour plane ride wasn't terrible until about 10 hours into it. My legs started hurting and my back was hurting. It was hard to sleep sitting up. But, I finished my book "Same Kind of Different As Me", which I would highly recommend and I watched 2 movies. Once we got off the plane in Tokyo, we had another 7 hour plane ride to Bangkok. I took my sleeping pill on that one and I was OUT!
Everything on the plane was smooth and we had tremendous favor going through customs in Bangkok. When we got to Bangkok, some of our luggage wasn't there -- mine, Trish's, and one of Joel's. They told us that our luggage was on the way to Phenom Phen, which we are NOT going to! But, they were able to pull our luggage off of the plane and bring it to us. That was interesting!!
Then, going through customs, they didn't want to let us bring our medicine in. But, after Wayne & Dr. J finished, they let us leave with it.
The hotel was comfortable and I had a room to myself. Interesting thing was that the toilet and shower are in the same area. . . and I don't mean in the same room. I mean, you take a shower standing right by the toilet. But, I had hot water, so it was fine.
So, our driver just got here and we're about to head to Cambodia. I'll e-mail when I can!!! Gotta run!! Beeping computer!
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That was so interesting! I was reading each detail and i didn't want it to end. I'll be looking forward to a long conversation with a lot of coffee.
I don't know if you heard or not but my Grandma Jody died on Sunday. All I wanted to do was to call you and talk to you about it since you also knew her. Of course we couldn't talk because you were on your way to Cambodia, but it made me realize again how much I treasure our friendship! I love you. You're very important to me.
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