Jack talk Thai, Jack talk Thai very well

(Shout out to Meet the Parents!)

Made it to Thailand, safe and sound. We left Delhi at 11pm (we pulled up to the airport JUST as it started POURING rain...monsoon season style!) and had a 7 hour flight to Kuala Lumpur. India has this wacky rule where you HAVE to have your itinerary or paper ticket along with your passport before they'll even let you in the airport. Um I haven't gotten a paper ticket before entering the airport since the 90's. Get with the electronic times India. I had a copy of our itinerary but it only had my name on it, so they weren't letting Sarah into the airport. After sending us to 3 different entrances we finally got snappy with the guys holding machine guns. Eventually one of them with a gun took Sarah's passport and walked inside to the Malaysia Airlines counter to make sure she was on the flight. Yeah, cause Sarah looks like someone who just likes to hang out in airports. It was ridiculous.

I slept for most of the first flight. Then we had a 2.5 hour layover in Malaysia before boarding a smaller plane and a 1.5 hour flight to Thailand. We didn't fly very high at all, I could see the ground for the whole flight. They served a delicious Thai breakfast consisting of coconut rice and spicy shrimp. Yeah, they don't really have breakfast food in their culture. Anything goes at any time of day. We landed in Thailand at 9:45am, checked our extra luggage in the storage room and got the shuttle into town. Had a little difficulty finding our hotel room but we managed to get there eventually. It's pretty decent considering its only $20 total for the night and has en suite bathroom.

Now we've ventured into town a bit, looking for the market, something to eat and internet. Only found the latter so far. We aren't going to hang around in Phuket long, tomorrow we are going to take a boat to Ko Phi Phi and lay on the beach for 5 days. It was raining when we got here this morning so let's hope that doesn't happen everyday. But its SO much cooler than India, its only about 85-90 degrees AND its socially acceptable to wear shorts! Yay! I'm so sick of sweating in pants and long skirts all for the sake of modesty. Haha. Acutally its a lot different than India so far. It's cleaner, there aren't tons of stray cattle wondering the streets, haven't seen any guys peeing on the side of the road and haven't seen much litter. And haven't heard a single horn honk since we've been here. Pretty impressive!

Think dry, anti-monsoon and tsnumai thoughts for us! Time to work on my tan again!