i have once again found myself in an airport. our month journey of southeast asia has come to a close, and i'm sitting in the bangkok airport waiting for my flight out to korea. and then it's run run run through customs, run run run to get my bag, run run run to meet my friend lucy at my gate who has been keeping my suitcase for me this month, run run run to departures and then pray pray pray that i'm not too late to catch my flight out of korea. once i'm on that flight, i'm home free! atleast if you call a layover in japan, and then chicago, and finally reaching omaha about 30 hours later home free. but anyway, i'm staying optomistic. i get to go home! get out of asia for awhile! i really can't wait for showers that aren't infested with bugs, toilets that actually flush and don't require me to pour buckets of water in them after each use, toilet paper!, and not sweating about 7 tons a day.
our last few days in thailand were really nice. after koh tao, we headed to the nearby island of koh pa gnang where we met up with the friends we had made in koh tao, and their friends they had made elsewhere, which ended up being about a group of 10 of us. they were all such great people! i feel so lucky for the people we've met on our trip. i like to think we found the best of the best, but i always feel like i do. oooo, and one of the guys we met had just played in the olympics! he had just come from there with his girlfriend. he played on england's field hockey team. COOL huh? and he lives close to where i'm going to live in england, so i'm sure i'll be meeting up with them again. actually, a lot of the people we met are from england or ireland, so i'm sure i'll be able to meet up with them in the future...we can re-live the good times of southeast asia...
anyway, so in koh pa gnang, we went to the half moon party in the jungle, which may have been one of the coolest things i've done. eveyone covered in neon glow in the dark paint (which seems to be all over my stuff now, refusing to come off...) dancing the night away in the middle of the woods. other than that, i must say we didn't do much in koh pa gnang. the weather was crappy--the first bad weater we've had on this trip--and both jen and i got super burnt our last day in koh tao on our final dive so neither of us were up for a lot of activity unless it included air conditioning, loose clothing, and possibly a bathtub of aloe vera.
we got to bangkok this morning at about 4 am after an all night bus ride, crashed at a hostel, shopped a little in bangkok, decided we really hate bangkok cuz it smells and is hot and crowded, and spent the night reminiscing about the last month. goodbye thailand!!!
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hey thanks for all of the trip updates. hopefully, sleepy sioux center will provide a bit of entertainment for you while your here. stop by the bean sometime.
Hello states!! We miss you and can't believe you're going to be here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
where are you now??
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