Made it to Thailand!

I'm sitting in the internet cafe at our hotel- Silver Gold Garden or some ridiculous name like that. Luckily it's close to the airport, around $20, and it's clean. I'm installing skype on the computer so I can chat with my dad about new job stuff. (More on that after I've signed a contract!)

I almost didn't make it here. I've been stressed with thinking about this potential new job and giving my leave notice at current job and somehow packed my recently expired passport in my bag. Anyway, we get there nice and early and zy pulls out the passports and tickets and gives them to the guy and he's like, this passport isn't going to work... And I felt like throwing up right there on the counter. So zy runs to get in a taxi and go home to get it (we're like 25 minutes away- the guy said we had less than an hour before they'd close check in) and about 15 minutes later he calls and says he forgot the house key!! So he had to come back (15 more minutes) and get the key... By now he technically had like 30 minutes to be back and was talking about just giving up. I was trying not to cry.

So I checked out China Air to see if they had any flights and they did but it was the same price for a one way as we paid for roundtrip. I went back to waiting by the check in counter for zy calling every 10 minutes to see where he was and to tell him to tell the driver to drive faster. The ticket guy came up to me and was really nice and asked how soon zy would be back because he wanted to get us both on the flight if at all possible. Usually they're like, you have exactly x amount of time to check in and if you don't, it's too bad for you. So anyway, zy made it back by 5pm and we ran in and made out 5:50pm flight with no other problems. There were no lines in security whatsoever! It was pretty amazing.

So anyway, we are here now. It's 1:50am Beijing time, 12:50am Bangkok time. We have to be up at 6am to leave at 6:30am for our 7:45am flight to Samui. Still not sure if we'll sleep over a night there first or just go straight to where the ferries run between Samui and the other islands and head to Koh Tao or Koh Phangan... Hopefully we'll find a place for the first night and then scope out the other places and find the nicest place within our budget. What we found last time was that in Railey Beach at least you can bargain a bit with the hotels. I want to stay a few nights right on the beach in a bungalow and I don't need a/c. I'm a little nervous there will be obnoxious people over-running the island because next week is the full moon party but I'm going to try to not worry about it. I'm used to staying where there are like 15 resorts to choose from tops but Phangan I think has like 50!

Anyway I need to go. Will update soon...