Bangkok

Ughhh just spent 20 minutes writing super-detailed account of our first day adventures and it got deleted. Cliff notes version:

- Figured out subway and skytrain

-Got visas at the Vietnamese consulate (have to get them far in advance)

-Got textbook conned into a wild tuk tuk ride ending at super high pressure travel agency. Figured it out, made no friends there. Only out 40 baht (a dollar fifty?)

-Found awesome public park with lake, almost got eaten by man-size swimming lizard that hauled up on land right where I was sitting (obviously I had climbed a nearby tree by that time, but Marshall and Cody were manly and stayed to take pictures).

-Took amazing canal boat ride with the locals (got a lot of funny looks...this was not for tourists)

-Saw the KING drive by (all traffic, even pedestrians, were stopped. Lot of people bowed to his rolls-royce).

-Found Buddhist festival with 3 stages of music, Thai dancing, singing. Incredible place to spend the sunset stretched out on the grass with a lit-up golden temple behind us.

-Ate incredible street food for dinner.

Heading up to Chiang Mai today. Wish us luck!

T