Thailand Day 1 - Arrival

Day one of our trip to Thailand was exhausting. We left home at 2am to hop on the 2:30 direct bus to Incheon international Airport. We spent the five hour drive fitfully sleeping and we arrived without incident to the airport at around 7:30 to check in for our 10:20 flight to Bangkok. We spent the flight to Bangkok sleeping fitfully again, only really waking up to eat. We arrived in Bangkok at 1:30, and got through immigration really fast, in fact, almost too fast as our flight to Chiang Mai wasn’t until 7:10 because we didn’t know how long it would take to go through immigration, get our bags, and check in to the new flight. We were also annoyed to find out that our flight was going to be delayed at least 45 minutes. We made the best of it and headed to the food area of the airport to have our first yummy Thai food. Cody had his first banana smoothie of the trip and a chicken veggie and noodle dish. I had my first Mango smoothie of the trip (it was so nice to have these things in a country where they are native and fresh) and a bowl of duck curry. It was all so yummy.

My first mango smoothie of the trip

My duck curry....YUM!

Cody's first banana smoothie of the trip

Cody's noodles

I am tired, but happy with the yummy food

While we ate we rolled our eyes and laughed at the teenagers who snuck away from their school group to take advantage of Thailand’s leniency toward drinking. It’s 18, but they almost never check for ID apparently, unless you look underage or your causing problems. I fuess bars get shut down for a month though if they are caught serving minors, so many of the better bars check, but this was a little airport restaurant, and they didn’t think to check or wonder why people would want to order liquors used for mixed drinks as shots (they kept ordering Malibu rum…which I think should have tipped these people off). They also kept complaining loudly about the taste of the rum, which no person old enough to order drinks would do loudly and continuously. Ah, if only their parents knew what they got up to on their summer trip. These kids were pretty good at dodging their chaperones. Hopefully their parents had a little bit of an idea of what can happen on a school trip like this.

Anyway, so we wait for what feels like forever for our plane, and we finally arrive in Chiang Mai at 9:20 and out hotel pick-up was waiting for us (we had called to say we would be late). It was really nice to have someone else carry our bags and they gave us cold water to drink. When we arrived at the hotel, they brought us welcome drinks. It was some sort of juice with little chunks of fruit floating in it.

They took us to our room, and we were surprised to find that they had decorated our bed with hearts made of rose petals and there was a small cake saying happy honeymoon. We were very surprised at this, because we had ordered this for the Amari hotel in Bangkok for our last day in Thailand, but we hadn’t ordered it for this Amari hotel. They gave it to us as a bonus because we had told them that this was our honeymoon.

We were tired at this point, but also hungry, so we headed to hotel lounge to listen to the piano player sing and play and have some delicious cheeseburgers, a banana cocktail for Cody and a Mojito for me (I’ve missed these in Korea).

After we ate, we went to bed, where we fell asleep very quickly after our long day.