We're HERE!!!!

Well, we made it. It was a LONG day or two of traveling but we arrived last night around 9pm our time and 8 am your time. We are 11 hours ahead of you, just an FYI. We've already had some good fortune...and some misfortune. For one, we met a couple who was on our plane and were able to share a cab with them to our hotel...that saved us some money. We met them in the Tokyo airport which was really nice by the way. We were able to get in 10 minutes of a chair massage before boarding the next plane to Bangkok. I even purchased some Japanese socks for the plane ride that separate my big toe out from others in case I ever want to wear them with flip-flops...how convenient!

All of our luggage arrived in Thailand, thank goodness. We are very proud because both of our packs only weigh about 20 lbs each...we did a good job:) We took the cab with our new friends, checked into our hotel which is very basic but fortunately has an internet cafe downstairs. Then we decided to venture to the famous Khao San Road to check it out. There was so much to see, street vendors, models getting their picture taken and even a baby elephant that Gabriel got to touch!! We sat down at a street side cafe to have a beer and ended up sitting next to another couple that I recognized from our plane. So we had a nice time chatting with them. After a couple of local beers (called Chang) we headed back towards the hotel and stopped at one more place that had live music. There was a Thai band playing that song "West Virginia", you know, Moutain momma. It was hysterical. They played all random songs from the US. There were so many tourists in the bar, it was like Spring Break or something. We just stayed for a beer and decided to go to bed. People can get into a lot of trouble here.

So the misfortune came this morning. We haven't even been here for 24 hours and Gabe threw up. Nothing to worry about, he feels fine now. He thinks maybe he just needed to get it out of the way. It's bound to be my turn soon I'm sure:) So besides that, everything is great! We are getting ready to head out to see the Grand Palace with the famous Emerald Buddha made out of jade. And then to Wat Po, a temple that houses the reclining Buddha. It's raining here, as we expected it would, but at least it's not super hot. We'll take plenty of pictures and hopefully post some on here soon.

So the adventure begins. Just wanted to let everyone we got here safely. Love you all and miss you already! I can't believe I'm in Thailand!!!!

Love you!