Taking in as much as we can with 6 hours in Bangkok 4/19

Up at 4am w/ Andy. Didn’t try to go back to sleep since all I could think about was our tight layover in Bali. I could hear the call to prayer from our bathroom at 4:45, dang that sucks to have to pray that early. We took our time packing and got breakfast at 6. It was muggy from the rain the day before. Eggs and rolls w/ honey, coffee, tea. The coffee here is really good, too bad I don’t really want to drink it since it’s so strong. We watched the sun change the sky colors again over the ocean and tried to snap pics of the kittens on the property. They are so scared and untrusting of people, just like their mom and dad.

We took a taxi to the airport before 7, not even bothering asking the people at the hotel what time we should arrive, we learned our lesson. The town has one giant road around it that’s one way so we drove through, seeing the rest of the town we didn’t explore before. We stood in line at the checkin counter. It took 30 min for the lady to help the people in front of us and us. They are just slow here, lesson learned. We’ll have plenty of time for our Bangkok flight I keep telling myself, we land at 10 and the next flight is 12.

The flight to Bali was chill. We waited for our luggage in the new domestic terminal, the whole airport is new and very nice. Our bags arrived and Andy's pockets were open- fuckers. Hopefully nothing too valuable were in them. We pretty much ran to the international terminal, it was really hot and hard to run w/ our heavy bags. It’s 1030 when we make it to the checkin counter for AirAsia. I print our baggage tickets but I can’t print our boarding passes. No worries, we would have had to stand in line anyways. A dude said he’d let us go to the front close to 1120 when they close, OK I guess, at least he’ll help us out. There’s no way this line is moving fast enough. Luckily, we got in line w/ another couple who were able to talk their way into the speed lane since they had everything printed. Basically, get in whatever line you want, they don’t ask questions in Indonesia.

We made it to the gate by 1045! Woot! Enough time for beers and lunch at Hard Rock. So exciting to have that part over w/. Over 4 hours to Bangkok w/ a one hour time change. We get through immigration quickly and basically walk right past customs and no one stopped us.

A cab ride to our hotel and out the door by 5:30. We took the sky tram to the river and jumped on a water taxi two stops up to Chinatown, seeing all the expensive hotels Bangkok has to offer along the way. The first part of our food tour was a duck soup at a street vendor and Andy grabbed two Chang’s. It was delish, and the spice not too spicy. Next we ate some sweet green mango and pineapple w/ spices. Next up were shrimp grilled w/ another street vendor and Andy got some pork next door, of course w/ some more beer. We took a tuk tuk back to the area of our hotel to go to the night market, but not before the driver took us to a shirt shop. The guy at the store wasn’t too happy when he realized Andy wasn’t interested and basically kicked us out. Whatever.

We walked around the night market and took in all the sounds and sights and sex workers. No ping pong show tonight thanks, next time. A couple cocktails along the way and our final stop was a restaurant for some Miang kham, leaf wrapped ginger, peanuts, tamarind, coconut. What would a trip to Bangkok be w/o a massage! We got a 60 min foot and shoulder massage. I’m pretty sure they were talking shit as both of us had sores on our feet from scuba. It was a mix of tickling and upmost pain w/ whatever she was gabbing into my feet. The head massage was the best, then moved on to mini acrobatics w/ my back. In all it was very nice and just what we needed after another crazy day. Back to the hotel by 1130.