Defining moments

I only have 11 minutes left on my internet but I have so much to say...they'll never be able to break my 1000 baht here though. I'll just have to make do for now.

I wanted to write about Chiang Dao, so beautiful, serene, peaceful, nearly perfect. It's hard to think of it now though, I'm in Bangkok...and Lauren just left. I came straight to the internet cafe because sad as it is, that is my comfort. Noone can really talk right now cause it's workin time at home. So what's a girl to do.

Lauren and I had a great day though, after yesterday which may have been the absolute worst day of the entire trip...NOTHING went right. But I'll save that for later. So we went to see Jim Thompson's house, Siam Square Shopping center and Lumpini park. Then we finished it with a fantastic meal...our first good one in Bangkok. Finally. I have to say, after nearly four months of travelling through SE Asia, my opinion of Bangkok has not changed one bit. Polluted, rude, dirty, traffic, noisy, smelly, tastless...I'm not so crazy about it. But I have a week to learn to love it or find a hotel with a swimming pool to hide out in.

As soon as we got off the night train from chiang mai to Ayuttha the people were instantly rude and seemingly miserable. What is it about the center of these countries? Central Vietnam was the same way. Loved the north and the south, but the people in the center were generally unpleasant (there's always a few exceptions of coarse). I'm def going to try and make the best of it, but I already miss Lauren. It's hard to believe, but aside from here thai massage coarse and a few other random days, we spent the entire last 4 months together! It's pretty crazy. I guess I have a reason to go to Florida now :)

So my next posting is going to be all about Chiang Dao and how much we loved it! I'll be just fine, after all...i have alex to look forward to!