0 T H A I L A N D

T H A I  L A N D has already won our hearts over.

We decided we wanted to plan a vacation when were leaving Hawaii for the last time. I wanted to celebrate Colten's graduation just a little bit more. I thought that it would help the sting of leaving our lovely home in Hawaii.

We flew to Tokyo Japan for our layover. It was the coolest, most peaceful airport I had ever been to. They had all sorts of cool little hang outs (I'll save that for another post). We arrived in Thailand after about 21 hours after leaving Hawaii. This was by far the longest we had ever traveled. But surprisingly it wasn't that bad. Maybe because we were just so excited it didn't seem that far. We were experiencing new things every moment. 

Once we got to Bangkok, it hit us that we weren't in America anymore. In Japan everyone knew english, so it didn't seem so bad. In Bangkok, people only spoke broken english, and we defiantly felt like we were a minority there. Colten stuck out like a sore thumb. He is by far WAY taller than anyone around us. On our flight, we had a handful of Americans so we just followed them to our luggage. 

Once we got our luggage we just looked at each other like, "what's next?" We decided to walk around to find the sky train. As we were walking this local guy yelled for Colten to go to him. He started to tell him directions on how to get to our condo. He obviously didn't notice me walking a little bit behind him because as soon as Colten got distracted some other guy came out of no where and was about to pickpocket coltens backpack. As soon as he saw me coming right towards him...starring... he just froze and looked like a deer in headlights. We just stared at each other for a good 30 seconds before he slowly walked away. 

My heart just dropped after that. I felt like we were this HUGE target. Luckily they didn't get anything from us, but as soon as we left I told Colten what happened. That of course freaked Colten out so we just flipped our backpacks around to our stomach side and we decided to trust a taxi. 

It was the weirdest ride because we couldn't communicate to each other! I felt so bad not being able to say thank you properly. Colten at least tried, and the guy just looked at us blankly. hahaha! It was a smooth car ride, until I looked up. Our driver was literally driving in the middle of the lane, in and out of traffic. He wasn't the only one either! It was very smooth chaos. I just looked over at Colten and we just smiled. I'm just glad we aren't driving.. we would be so lost! By the way, they drive on the opposite side of the road, and on the passenger side. It totally throws me off.

We got to our condo in one piece and were so exhausted! We had a little miscommunication with our keys but luckily a girl walking by helped us out with our lack of Thai skills. She spoke english really well and she communicated for us! We were so grateful for her!! Once we got in our condo we were all smiles! Best sleep in a long while!

Waking up we found our balcony had the most amazing view! We were so giddy to go explore. Just downstairs we have an amazing supermarket. The produce inside is amazing. It's so fun to look at all the food labels in Thai. You know what it is, but the names are so different. So far nothing tastes too different than Hawaii. Everything is just much cheaper here! 

$1.00 US Dollar = 30 Bahts When you look at the prices it looks like a lot, but it really isn't in US money. We only spent $15 all day yesterday for all our meals and groceries. Which makes us all smiles. It seems appropriate that Thailand is called The Land of Smiles. Other than our little pickpocket experience, everyone is super friendly and nice to us. 

After we explored for bit, we took a dip in our pool. The humidity isn't as bad as we thought. Hawaii prepared us. I don't feel like it's too different than what we experienced in Oahu. It still feels good to take a dip in the water! 

We spent a good hour in the pool by ourselves....there may or may not of been a little flirting going on;) 

A third honeymoon never hurt anyone right?

Day one in Thailand was a success. 

-sincerely, adri