Wanderlust

What a wonderful, crazy day. I honestly don't even know where to begin. Bangkok is just... so much. Like so many sounds and colors and smells and tastes and people, ohhhhh the people. It's just a lot to take in and makes everything kind of a blur. I've read about that and I've seen some YouTube videos about it too but nothing really prepares you for it. We saw it a tiny bit yesterday with the train/taxi ride but really experienced it in earnest today. WARNING: This is a very long post. Breakfast at Hostel The day had an inauspicious start. As I mentioned in the last post, I woke up at around 1am or so because we were dumb and didn't plan our sleep schedule well. So I was awake for a long time this morning just hanging out at the hostel. The hostel has a really cool set up and I like the location (in a quiet neighborhood but within walking distance of major sites). Lacey woke up at around 2:30am too so we were both wide awake in the middle of the night. We deci...

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...