Huge night on the piss at ‘Oh My Cod’ last night drinking so the buffet breakfast in the hotel this morning was a godsend ….pity the coffee here all takes like ass.

Leyton and I did a little more shopping at the famous ‘Khao Sahn Road’ after breakfast and meet Dean back at the hotel for another adventurous day in the ‘Kok’

While at MBK (the massive shopping centre we decided to see a movie (Michael Collins), it was pretty crap but the funny thing was you have to stand to attention for an ad about the king right before the movie, very strange.

After some more shopping we left Dean and ventured back to Veng Thai all by ourselves to meet our Intrepid tour leader and the group. Most of the people of the tour had just come from another tour up North and had their final dinner on so Leyton and I went and had beers with our tour leader ‘Bom’.

Bom left us but recommended dinner at “Au Thong” a place just down the road – good food, and lots of cats.

We then spent the rest of the night wandering around ‘Khao Sahn Rd’ taking in all the sights and ended with a Thai massage, unfortunately it was from dudes ….a little weird.

Tomorrow we start the tour.

_B

….and we have arrived.

The flight was pretty good, had a few drinks, the movie sucked “Underdog” so we had a bit of a sleep.
We managed to get to Dean’s place in Bangkok after a few translation issues and a call to Dean.

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Today’s the day, finally off on my 10 day Intrepid trip to Thailand. The plane leaves in a few hours so I have to go and pick up Leyton…because he is tagging along

We are flying Thai Air so it should be a pretty good flight (about 9hrs) so should have plenty of time to get tipsy and fall asleep.

See you all soon.

_B

It’s been awhile since a regular blog entry so here goes it.

Umm I’ve been back a couple of weeks now, first week was good just to relax after the pretty full on trip (as you can see by the NZ entries). I had my job interview/meeting 2 Friday’s ago and all went well for me to start the Monday week, I was kinda glad because I was enjoying my holiday life and needed another week to get use to getting up early.

So by lunchtime on Monday I was officially over my holidays….I was soo freaking bored I made myself some party finger food (biscuits, olives, ham and cheese), cracked open a bourbon and watched a cooking show….definitely time to go back to work. So I guess Tyrone must have been in-tune because he called that afternoon and asked if I could start on Wednesday….WoooHoo!

The new job is awesome, heaps more challenging then my last job with loads more opportunities so I am extremely happy…having money coming in again instead of just going out is a plus too.

_B

So after our incredibly bad decision to drink ‘Apple Schnapps’ Em and I woke up early and headed out for some coffee and somewhere to have breakfast, I guess everyone partied too much during the Union the night before because nothing was open…seriously all the cafes were shut and didn’t open til 10am.

We walked back, woke everyone up and checked out of the motel and headed down to a cool place we spotted earlier…which was now strangely completely overcrowded with people. We ordered and it was gonna take 25mins to be served which wouldn’t have been so bad but we had to sit outside due to all the friggin people….luckily they had “soup sized” coffee which kept us going.

As it was only about 10:30 and we didn’t have to be in Christchuch til 1pm we drove down to the 1 of 4 mini golf centre’s for a quick round of 18. It was very cold, completely outdoors and I may have had to take a 5 shot penalty on almost every hole….and that’s all I have to say about that!

_B