One night in Bangkok...

October 15th--We all woke up this morning finally feeling back to normal and rested. This was a good thing since we had to get all our stuff reorganized among the 4 suitcases in order to head to the airport. We left the YMCA without a minute to spare...we checked out right at noon and caught the 12:10 Airport Express shuttle bus to Kowloon station. When we arrived at the train station, we were thrilled to find out that we could actually check-in for our flight and check our luggage as well. It was nice to get rid of the luggage here since we still had to take the 30 minute train ride to the airport. We got to the airport and went through security and immigrations fairly quickly. So, we found the Cathay Pacific lounge and were able to hang out in there until our flight. It was great because we could help ourselves to all kinds of fruit, food and drinks which were really good for us at this point. Our flight left at 3:50 for Bangkok. Once again, our plane was very nice. We are getting really spoiled to these big planes with TVs and meals. Our flight was about 2 1/2 hours and we arrived in Bangkok about 5:30 (1 hour time difference). We went through immigration, got our luggage and got in a taxi. The taxi ride was very interesting to say the least. We never feared for our life, but we are lucky we didn't kill each other during our ride. First of all, when the driver popped open the trunk, there was a huge tank (like a large gas tank) inside the trunk. We immediatly knew that all 4 of our suitcases were not going to fit in there. Mike and I just gave each other that "uh oh" look. The driver put our big suitcases in there sitting straight up and then used a bungee cord to hold the lid from flopping open, because it certainly wasn't closing. Our other 2 suitcases rode in the passenger seat while the 4 of us piled in the backseat of the taxi. It was an hour long drive with most of it in some pretty heavy traffic. Of course it was hot and humid and we were all tired from a day of travel. We were so happy to arrive at the Marriot Apartments and were greeted with some much needed lemonade. Our apartment here is really nice...it's 2 bedrooms, but the big thing is there are televisions in all bedrooms with the Disney Channel. The kids are loving it! Since it was after 7pm (8pm to our bodies), we settled in and then ordered pizza for dinner before heading to bed.