After spending 7 days running around Thailand like crazy, I am finally home. On October 1st, I flew into Bangkok, Thailand, only to hop in a mini-bus and head to a small beach town about 2 hours south, called Pattaya. Oh Pattaya. Left much to be desired, but needless to say, Brian and I had a blast.
We lounged by the pool, ordered frilly drinks with umbrellas on them, and even drank out of a floating coconut or two! We strolled around town, bought some "name brand" items, experienced Thai culture and food, checked out a hand-crafted wooden temple of sorts, and rode elephants! After 5 days of fun-in-the-sun, Brian had to hop back aboard the good ole' GW, bound for someplace thus unknown, and I was left to my own devices in a city worse than sin. So, not one for wasting much time, I hoped aboard another mini-bus with 3 of my friends, and high-tailed it back into Bangkok to absorb as much of the city as we could in the 8 hours before our plane left for Tokyo. We took our lives into our own hands as we rode tuk-tuks around the city, then jumped into a long boat for a canal tour of rural Bangkok, then shopped around, and took the skytrain back to the airport to jump on our red-eye back home. Boy am I glad to be back home in Japan! Kinda weird to say that. Now we're on the home stretch to the end of our first deployment, and I am eagerly awaiting the return of my Brian!
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