HELLO BANGKOK! Day ONE

Here are a couple pictures of our hotel.  It's nice, yes.  But it's just a hotel so i'm not going to get too much into it. 

 

This is Liam's (and my) favorite room. The playroom.  We spend nearly 2 hours a day here and have met lots of people and kiddos from around the world!

 

This is clearly not a picture I took of our room, but it's what our room looks like without us in it :)  Our room is jam packed with a full sized crib, toys, suitcases, and some room to walk.  What isn't shown is we have a little refridgerator/freezer, microwave, two burner stovetop, and electric kettle.  The view is very nice from the 28th floor I must say.

 

 

 

It's a bathroom.  Enough said.  The toilet is European and offers quite the selection of "services".  We won't go there. We don't use them. 

 

 City View

 

 Fitness Room

 

Street View -- Always traffic.  This was actually a calm time.

 



We arrived around 11:30pm on Wednesday night, January 28.  By the time we got settled in to our "temporary  home" aka the hotel that we STILL reside at (i'm writing this on February 12) and tried to sleep it was 2:30am here, or 1:30pm in America.  It was pretty rough feeling.  Thursday morning we were to meet our "realtors" to go apartment hunting.  Most people, including myself thought WHY so soon!?  It actually worked out well to help start our time turn around. 

After eating an ENORMOUS breakfast (dinner time for us, we were STARVING), we met Khun Praow and Khun Golf (Khun is like Mrs.)  in our hotel lobby.  They had reserved a van and driver to take us around to different apartments/condos. I believe we saw 11 places that day with a break for lunch. At the end of the day, of course we liked the first place the most.  But we also wanted to see more.  I felt pretty good, only a smidge tired, and Liam seemed fine, maybe a little cranky.  I thought maybe we beat jet lag.  HA!  Josh told me Friday would be the bad day.  He was correct.

Thursday night, we weren't ultra hungry (since it was sleep time in America!) but what we did want to eat was a little American food.  There's a restaurant in Terminal 21 mall named Tony Roma's.  Ah...Ribs and other American goodies.  Sold.  We went in around 6:00.  We were leaving with to go boxes at about 6:15 because Liam had met his threshold.  He went straight to sleep and we ate out of boxes in the hotel room and did the same.  We survived until 7:30pm. 

I didn't really have any solid opinions of Bangkok after the first day.  It just seemed like a big city.  Lots of people.  Kind of smelly in places.  Relatively clean, which was surprising given the amount of people.  I had a lot to learn, of course.

Forgive me, I didn't take many pictures on day one because we were moving fast and Liam was suction cupped to my side. 

LESSONS OF THE DAY:  1.  If a Thai person tells you that it's not spicy or mild spice, it is damn spicy.  Wash down with water.  Repeat.  2.  Close your eyes while riding in a vehicle for the first time in Bangkok.  It's scary.  3. Open your eyes while walking in Bangkok, someone is always coming at you!  From every direction.  Always.