Day 1 The Journey and Day 2 Bangkok craziness

First blog entry wooo!

DAY ONE:

The looong plane journey:
Up at 3am on the plane by 7am and in Sydney by about 12pm. Really liked Sydney for the one hour we managed to squeeze in there! Visited the Opera House and Harbour Bridge - pretty standard. Stupidly forgot to bring Aussie dollars so Sam to the rescue. First slight issue of the trip - Sam realises hours later he has left his iPad on the plane...oops. By some miracle we manage to locate it and its back safe in Sams possession. So the next leg of the plane journey again long and uninteresting.

Bangkok arrival:Jipped as soon as we arrive when for some reason we give a way overgenerous tip to this dude for carrying our bags a few metres. finally arrive at our hotel and even though we have been up 24 hours straight decide what the helllll lets go out 'on the turps' (as Dad would say and we found extra hilarious in our zombie like state last night). Hit Khaosan Rd nightlife, full of cheaps drinks and tourists. So we got cheap cocktails and buckets and spent the night at a few cool bars. Met some entertaining Thais who were obviously school kids way overexcited at partying in town literally grinding all over people for attention from every passerby. Annnyway we eventually found this epic club and attempted to stay there for a bit but the tiredness hit and we were outta there and to bed pretty quick

TWENTY EIGHT hours awake going strong!

DAY TWO Barak is in Phuket:
Today consisted of cramming in as much tourist stuff as possible into a 24 hour period. We went to a few temples, buddas, palaces - that sort of thing. We had this cute as tuk tuk driver who told us he was Michael schumaker and drove like an absolute maniac. He took us to random as factories and 'high end fashion stores', another little con we have since learned to avoid. Later we took a boat ride down the canal which was pretty eye opening seeing how all the people live down there. Then hit up MBK this mammoth shopping centre with like 7 floors all just packed with any and every type of store you can think of. Surprisingly none of us have bought anything yet, saving that for Phuket! So its now 6.30pm and we are starting to get ready for partying in Bangkok round two. Lets see how long we last given we are all prrrretty exhausted.

Oh and to explain the title - Barak Obama is in Bangkok! Self important president that he is he got two of the biggest tourist must do's shut down so he could see them...damnit! Though to be honest we were semi keen to go and hang round just to see him since we really do love the guy.

Till next time :)