Wanderlust

Well, here we go with the first post about this trip. This is a kind of long one sooooo just warning you haha. Greg and my mom drove us to the airport which was uneventful. For some reason, I kept thinking this trip was a long ways away, even when it wasn't so it was surreal to finally be getting to the airport to start the traveling. Ready to go! Our first flight was to Charlotte, North Carolina. The flight was fine but of course, the guy in front of me put his seat back. Also, my headphone jack didn't really work (I had to push the headphone connection or I wouldn't get sound). There was one really big set of turbulence. Our second flight to Paris was pretty bumpy for the first couple of hours. It was definitely the worst turbulence either of us remembers. An older lady across the aisle didn't know how to work her tv which provided us a little bit of entertainment. I watched Marvel movies and Lacey watched Disney movies. I was very impressed with the movie ...

Off to Cambodia! I was surprised at how few people we talked to in the islands area and Bangkok had planned to go to Cambodia. I have read that it is a beautiful country and they use US dollars as their currency so it's easy to navigate. There's one primary reason we intended to head there: Angkor Wat. It's a giant area of temples, some reconstructed and some left in disrepair. ***This is a long post*** Famous Tree at Ta Som Temple When we booked our flight at 6:20am we were concerned about how early it was. Turns out that on this trip we just get up really early all the time no matter what so it was easy haha. Our hotel was only about a 10-minute walk to the airport but they have a free shuttle so we took it. Getting through security and stuff was easy (after 5 flights so far this trip, this is old hat). We got pastries for breakfast and my almond croissant was delicious.  The flight was uneventful (no one leaned their seat back this time!!!). The sunrise was...

So we made it! We traveled across the Pacific Ocean and are in Bangkok now. It's about 2am here (still 75 degrees out) and I'm writing this blog post at our hostel common room. This is going to be a long post because I don't have anything else to do at 2am so sorry for that. You'll see why I'm awake at 2am in just a bit. Waiting at Chicago Airport Our journey started with 3 flights to get us to Thailand. Our first flight from Minneapolis to Chicago was extremely uneventful and short. We took the airport train to the international terminal and found that our airplane company didn't have a desk set up for checking in. We got a little worried so I asked the information person what was up. He said they normally don't start staffing the check-in desk until 3-4 hours before the flight (we were 6 hours early). We found some chairs to hang out in and watched Netflix on my laptop (Great British Baking Show is awesome btw). Nervousness about eating was beginning...