We're Here!!!! Traveling is enjoyable but it is not always fun.

FINALLY.... Well we are here and that is a good thing.  Getting here wasn't so good though.  Our friend Bob got us to the airport in plenty of time and thank goodness for that.  We get to the check in and are informed that the flight on our intinerary does not exist.  Boy are we ever happy >>>not<<<<
THANKFULLY.... a couple of exceptional Air Canada counter personel got on the case for us and about 1 and 1/2 hours later had us on our way again.  A slightly different route but it got us to San Francisco on time to link up with our flight to Tokyo and onward to Bangkok.
Ringggg.... that was our phone and a call letting us know our baggage is here (twenty five hours after we got here).  It was a hot day in Bangkok, not a day for blue jeans.  Luckily we had t-shirts in our carry-on bag so we survived the day.

Nice to be back here again.  The new (to us) skytrain from the airport to downtown is now in service and boy does that make a nice difference.  About twenty minutes and you are there.  Did a lot of walking around once we were downtown and checked out tomorrows transportation to Ayutthaya.  Looking forward to our visit there.  We haven't been there before so it should be interesting with lots of temple ruins and stuff.  We'll get lots of pictures and post some here for next time.
 Bangkok seems to get easier each time we come back.. the traffic is a lot more sane each time we visit and getting around is so much better.  The large MBK shopping centre has been reconfigured and we thought a much better shopping experience.  Didn't buy much but walk kms. looking around.
Came back to our hotel out by the airport with plans to have a short nap and go out for something to eat and checkout the street market... great plan but here it is two o'clock in the morning and we have just woken up about and hour ago or so and everything in the area except the Tesco store and 7-eleven are closed.  The body hasn't changed its internal clock yet!

Looking forward to posting some interest travel stuff on the next blog entry with some pictures to go with it.  Talk to you soon.