Airplane

Ok, we're in Thailand now, but I'm going to start by briefly describing our travels. We left Honolulu airport at 7:15 am on Thursday morning. That means we got to the airport at 5am (courtesy of Diane Varley, who is awesome), having woken up at 4am. A ten hour flight on China Airlines landed us (literall) in Taipai Taiwan, where we had a 2 hour layover and didn't do much. I did, however, feel the need to take a picture of the "smoking rooms" in the Taipai airport, rooms which they also have at the Bangkok airport. I called them cancer rooms and proceeded to photograph them in appropriate mockery. Gross.

We got two meals on the 10 hour flight - and apparently requesting "vegetarian" meals means Indian food. It was ok, but when you start to feel kind of queasy from turbulance, Indian food is not exactly your first choice. Oh well. You get your own personal TV screen and remote, Kane and I watched I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry, Knocked Up, and Ocean's 13. They were all very mediocre but we were happy to have something to pass the time.

Kane does not fit into the seats, but he was not ridiculously uncomfortable. His knees hit the seat in front of us, and he's pretty good at dealing with that.

Next flight was 4 hours from Taipai to Bangkok. One meal and I slept most of the way. We were in the front seats, so Kane actually got an appropriate amount of leg room - yeay! Once we landed in Bangkok, we did the immigration thing (they completely don't look at the form you fill out, by the way), grabbed our luggage, and proceeded to be accosted by a barrage of people with taxis for hire. My book told me to seek out the "metered taxi" desk, and so we did.

Go to next post for Taxi info.