The end...

Posted by Chris

So sad, it is the last day of our holiday :(

At least leaving the craphole of Bangkok makes it easier to do than if we had to return to home direct from one of the awesome party islands. Danae and I woke late today, even Ryan and Heidi beat us up. We had the very average breakfast and headed outside for another death-cab ride.

As expected, the driver was driving like a complete idiot. We thought it was going to get really bad when, after 10 minutes of crazy driving, he put on his seatbelt. Lucky he didn’t do anything completely crazy and he even took the seatbelt off again after about 2 mins!?!

We arrived at MBK shopping town again where Ryan and I left the girls and went to collect the suit. We took the trusty SkyTrain but as usual, when we arrived at the suit shop at the scheduled time, the suit wasn’t there and they had to call up to get it delivered. Fifteen minutes later the suit turned up and Ryan fitted quite well into it.

We caught the SkyTrain back to Central where we met up with the girls for lunch. I had KFC, Danae had a maccas burger and Ryan and Heidi shared some Japanese. We caught one of the least death-like cabs back to Khao San as no cab drivers know our hotel by name and they speak no English. We got back to the hotel about 1:30 to find out they had cut the power to our rooms as checkout time was at 1pm. We quickly packed our bags and checked out before they charged us for another half-night room rental for being late.

Death-cab time again, but lucky we got a relatively sane driver for the trip to the Airport. Although he didn’t take the toll road making the journey take much longer than it had to be. At the airport we had a few hours to kill as our flight had changed to TG993 and was now leaving at 6:15 instead of 5:30 (apparently is it a bit too hard to tell people when you change their flights in this country).

I spent a good hour or two just trying to find a blank notepad so we could do some handwritten blog entries on the plane, but I couldn’t find anything and eventually settled for some customer feedback forms for some airline service. Meanwhile Ryan and Heidi were enjoying very expensive but delicious tapas as we were all trying to spend the last of our Baht’s.

I needn’t have bothered trying to find any paper as once we had been through an abnormal amount of security and bag checks, we boarded the plane to find out we had the best in seat entertainment I have ever seen. All seats had a personal TV of about 9 inches big, with heaps of on demand movies, TV shows and games to play. Ryan beat me at a game of pong but then I beat him in a game of “Mole” pong. The mole seemed a lot like he was on my side despite his supposed randomness. The meals on the plane was the usual crap airline food, but Ryan and I enjoyed the movies “Shooter”, “The Breach” and “The Departed” while drinking the plane of all its supplies of Chang and Heineken.

We landed at Sydney airport and stocked up on the maximum amount of duty free booze, then did the customs and quarantine queue thing. Danae and I got put in a stupid long line while Ryan and Heidi luckily were waved through. Ryan thought that Danae and I had run off, so him and Heidi joined the cab line and were unreachable by the time we were out. We never got to say goodbye :( Oh well, we made the virgin blue flight back to Brisbane, feeling like death, where my parents and sister were there to greet us with Champagne and balloons. My parents sure are excited about Danae joining the family :)

A final rundown of holiday highlights is coming soon…