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Day 2
26th July 2013
We arrive in kaula Lumper around 07:30 and have time for me to find the smoking room for a quick cigarette before getting our connecting flight to Bangkok. We sit down by the gate and I get the cards out and we decide to play snap. Tracey deals the pack out and we start and we go through all our cards without one snap!
We board out flight and once in the air I fall asleep. We are both totally knackered due to not getting much sleep on the last flight. I get woken for breakfast which is noodles and chicken I think and then doze off again. The flight takes about an hour and fifty minutes and we land and its time to find another smoking room. We go through immigration and then collect our bags and head out to get a taxi to our starting hotel the "Bangkok Central Hotel". This must never be confused with the Bangkok Hilton which is the nickname for Bangkok prison.
We check in and bonus it looks like iv got a room to myself for the first part of the trip. We go up to the rooms and then head to Bonds room just to say hi but he is out so we go back to our rooms and crash out for a couple of hours. I get up around 16:00, shower and get ready for our group meeting at 18:00. It doesn't seem as intimidating this time as I know both Bond and Tracey. We go down a little bit early to see Bond and its nice to see him again. I'm not sure if he's after a bigger tip this year but says iv lost weight and look younger than last year. He tells us that his wife is now expecting a little boy in about 4 months.
The group start to arrive and I have the normal nightmare of trying to remember everyone's name, iv got no hope at the moment but I'm sure I will get there by week 2!
After our meeting we head out for dinner at the little restaurant we ate in last time. I'm sat with Tracey and 3 other girls around me, one from the Netherlands who's name I'm struggling with so she says her English name is Jackie. The other two girls are from the UK and are Hannah and Francesca. Next to Tracey are a German couple Steven and Anna and while we are chatting it turns out most of the group are teachers! After the meal we decide to go for a drink so we go back to the hotel and those whose don't feel like go off to bed and the rest of us head downtown in 2 Tuk Tuks with 5 of us in each one. In ours the girls all sit on the seats and each others lap and I'm sat on the floor. We race through the streets the two drivers continually overtaking each other and it does feel like we will tip over on the bends. We arrive at Khao San road better know as backpackers street. The street is full of bars and market stalls selling everything from t shirts to fake Id's and noodles to deep fried scorpions. As we wander along I'm asked several times if I want to go to a ping pong show which I politely decline. We find a bar and all sit outside on the tables on the side of the street. Everyone orders their drinks and of coarse I order a bucket of mojito. We sit chatting and order more drinks and I order Bond a B52. I ask Tracey where the toilets are as she has already been and head down stairs. I go into the toilet and stand at the trough. A Thai guy is standing behind me and I'm very suspicious as I think he is going to try and rob me or something. He puts his hands on my shoulders and starts trying to give me a massage I turn my head round and say repeatedly NO!!!!!!!! He backs off and I continue to try to pee but am now finding it very difficult. I leave the toilet and go up and tell Bond what just happened and he says oh yea I meant to tell you to always use the cubicles as the attendant will try and give you a massage if you use the urinals. Really that information would have been handy 5 minutes ago lol. We all sit chatting and a little girl comes round selling roses. I ask the price for 6 and she says 120. I say to her I will give her 100 and she says if I can beat her at Rock Paper Scissors then I can have them for 100. Well I paid 120 lost 3 times. But gave a rose to each of the girls in our trip and hoped that their boyfriends or husbands didn't mind.
One of the guys with us called Steven but English Steven decides he is going to try the deep fried scorpion. I had thought about it but we were warned that a guy on the last trip ate 3 and had an upset stomach the next day. I decide not to at the moment as we have a 6 hour coach journey tomorrow, but fair play to him Steven goes for it. We finish our drinks and get Taxis back to the hotel apart from Francesca and Hannah who want to stay and do some shopping. It's almost midnight by the time we get back. I say goodnight to my new travel friends and turn in for the night.
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Sue & Keira sounds like you having a great time babes xx we are missing you loads xx tc xx