Let The GHETTO times begin!

I am now in Bangkok and immigration went smoothly and so did meeting up with Reena! The airport is huge so I thought meeting up would be an issue. We were advised not to sway into the "friendly" people who step up to "help" us because apparently they would do the opposite! So within 10 minutes of meeting up and sitting down to figure out what we will do, we had 2 guys come up to me trying to "help" us. Reena got mad and told me not to look or smile at them. I couldn't help it! They smiled so I smiled. I have to remember that we are in Thailand and NOT to trust anyone. It's very hard but I have to be tough. When we were in Shanghai 3 years ago I almost got us into trouble numerous times because I was too trusting. I won't even go there because I don't want you all to think I am too gullible or too trusting ; )

We were going to spend our first night at the airport but we were without a shower for 48 hours and we couldn't go further without a shower! We have a 2 hour bus ride to Pattaya tomorrow so we did not want to be any nastier than we already are! Stepping out of the plane was insane because we had to get out on ground level and I felt a sudden gust of hot air as I stepped out! We are looking at 35 degrees celsius tomorrow!!!! I am soooooooooo luvin' it!

We were so clueless with the currency conversion so I gave the cab driver $5 American for our 10 minute cab ride and $1 American tip for carrying our bags to the hotel. I then gave the bell boys $1 American each for carrying our suitcases...We then realized we gave waaaayyyy too much! Our cab ride should have been only 30 cents! No wonder he was so nice to us and offered to pick us up tomorrow to take us to the bus station!!! So Reena said we should be ghetto and NOT pay him tomorrow! Hmmmm, not sure about that! LOL!

So our hotel is in a really dark and shady area....very quiet and dark. There are also mad bugs eating me alive as I type and there are tiny little, yellow, sticky looking lizards all over the place. I am trying to be brave and not freak out! I am scared one of them will plop on my head. If so the whole hotel will have a rude awakening with all my screams!!! I was complaining about the smell of our room because it smells like heavily sprayed old lady perfume. It seemed like ONG BOK ran up to our room before we entered and went on a spray-fest! Reena was telling me to enjoy it because it will probably be the nicest smelling thing we will be smelling. I stepped outside to video tape our view (Not a nice view at all....it is the back of a really crusty 2 level apartment) and I can feel the hot hair and a nasty smell. Not sure what it is...all I know is that I am scared for what's ahead as I am sensitive to smells.

With that all said and done....I hope I can handle the GHETTO times ahead!