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Wake up at 5:15am after a bad night sleep on the cold airport floor. First thing we do is find some food! Get a huge (!) slice of pizza for Breakfast and tastes fresh orange juice :)
Head back to gate 34 to wait for out flight. Get on flight 2 of 3 at 7:30am but do not move for a while as they are waiting for something from another flight. Sat next to Rikka on this flight, but she's sat next to a strange man, not ideal
Once we're up in the air try to start watching "Rio" but fall asleep really fast. Rikka can't believe how quick and easy I fall asleep :P breakfast arrives, it was disgusting, how could spinach, bread and beans go so wrong?!
Fall asleep every time I try to watch a program, so tired! Eventually arrive in Bangkok at 6:45pm (local time). Go through Thai immigration to get visas and an "international baggage claim" sticker, which totally confuses us, so we head to baggage reclaim, even though we were told our bags would go all the way through from London to Chiang Mai?
We managed to get through to baggage reclaim fine, but once through we're through we are told our bags will go to Chiang Mai, so try to go back the way we came. A security lady stops us and after we try to explain she points us In the direction of "Airport Services", so were much more helpful. They took us back to security lady (and man) and explained for us in Thai. We had to go back through security but got back through to right side of airport.
After the bad food on the plane we're so hungry so hear to the food hall where we find a Subway, yum! We eat back at the gate B2, waiting for our 3rd and final plane. Get really frustrated with phone as it won't get signal, but manage to connect to wifi (eventually) and get in touch with home :)
Board plane at 8:50pm. We're not sat next to each other on thus flight, I'm sat next to the window next to 2 Thai people. Apparently you don't stand up and let people get past you to sit down, so I had to squeeze past these 2 people to get yo my seat with my bum in their faces, first impressions eh!? :D
Take off at 9:20pm for a 1 hour flight, which went so fast after 2, 7 hour flights. Before the safety video they show their Bangkok Airways music video, quite funny (watch it if you can). Food comes out as soon as we are past a bit of turbulence going through the clouds, I got chicken so didn't eat it :)
The man sat behind me starts snoring, SO LOUDLY, I didn't even know people could make that much noise without being awake! I can't help but giggle, as do the people around me, including the air stewards!
We land at Chiang Mai just after 10:30pm. All people wearing the "International baggage claim" sticker get escorted to special baggage collection belts where we are told Rikka's bag never got on the plane at Bangkok and is on the next Thai air flight. The bag finally arrives at 11:15pm and we head through to get a taxi.go yo the taxi booth and request taxi, just 120 Thai baht, so cheap (about £2.25). Taxi 106 turns up, very cool car :) on our way to Hostel we see a man on a moped holding an umbrella as it's raining :P
Arrive at Aoi a Garden Home hostel later than anticipated but Boris (?) didn't seem to mind, he got up from having beers with 3 Dutch guys to check us in. Aoi Garden is so guts with fairy lights everywhere and people sat outside :) Boris shows is our room which is in a little shack "Aoi Home 2" hitch you have to take your shoes off when entering, our room is upstairs and to the left with Air-con :) yay! A little bit too excited to go to sleep but as soon as head hits pillow we are both out cold!
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