Bangkok, Thailand!

Another day, another scorcher. Chris and I arrived in Bangkok on Sunday evening around 6:50pm. The night before leaving, we had been out with a bunch of friends to hang out for the last time. Usually, Chris is the one that wants to stay out late and get drunk while I opt to go home early. However, it was the other way around this time. :(

We spent the day shopping in Myeongdong with Lisa, her friend from the states, and Ben. I bought a t-shirt for James, a shirt for Jen, and a few hair clips for myself. We also ate dak galbi for the last time - Chris's favorite food in Korea. It also began to rain while we shopped and the five of us crowded under Ben's huge umbrella for a bit before I discovered a discarded umbrella (I swear) from under a clothes rack and "borrowed" it. (Later, I returned it to the same spot when Chris said that someone may have been looking for it.) After shopping, Chris and Ben went to COEX Mall so Ben could get a birthday present for a friend and Chris wanted to look at guide books for Thailand. The rest of us, along with Ruth, went to Gangnam to meet my friend Hyung-woo. We went there and also met up with John - then, all of us went to go eat dinner at a galbi place. I had 3 or 4 shots of this red rice wine or something which wasn't strong. Then, we separated from Hyung-woo and I said I'd meet up with him later. We ended up going to Ben's apartment to get Gail's suitcase and transfer it over to Ruth's. Little did we know that this would take nearly two hours. We took the cab to Apgu to meet up with Ben and others, but we ended up leaving to go back to Gangnam. Outside a convenience store, we took several shots of soju (which I hate and should've been a sign for what was to come) and said farewell to Chris (he wanted to stay).

Gangnam - we ended up separating. I went with Hyung-woo and his friends, and the rest of the group said that we'd meet up later to drink. Olivia was also there and there were other people waiting for them. Hyung-woo knows, like everyone else, how much I despite soju so he got me a beer. Silly me, thinking "oh, this is my last day - I'll live it up" kept taking shots of soju and using the beer as a chaser. We ended up going to another bar where I knocked back more shots. The rest of the night is really fuzzy - I remember it being daytime (!) and saying good-bye, and all of a sudden Chris and I are walking with our luggage to the bus stop. Turns out, I got home after 6am where Chris let me sleep for a half hour while he packed up all our belongings (he forgot his Macbook charger, though). During this time, I also puked my brains out (sorry). I remember still being drunk on the bus ride to the airport and was holding a shopping bag Chris had given me in case I threw up again - which I did. Oh, and I threw up four times on the flight to Malaysia, and once more to Bangkok. I don't know how I survived those plane rides... the worst day of my life. I never want soju again.

Bangkok- we're staying at a decent guesthouse. The first night, we had stayed at a really low budget one where we had to throw water into the toilet to make it flush and there was an ant infestation - the floor was literally crawling and we kept having to flick them off our beds and shake them off our belongings! I have bug bites all over my legs and one on my back - why do bugs always like me?- from the ants or the mosquitoes, I don't know. We saw a lot of temples yesterday, and though we tried to drink often we were so dehydrated from sweating that we didn't have to use the bathroom once. :X

Today, we're going to the Floating Market which is about an hour away. Tomorrow, we leave for Koh Chang, an island that takes about 5 hours to get to. We're really excited - it's supposed to be really quiet and relaxing. Our bungalow is a one-minute walk from the beach.

All right, well, I should go now. We have yet to eat breakfast. It's just too hot to be in the mood to eat. Yesterday, we ate breakfast around 10 and didn't eat again until 6:30 or so. By the way, the food is delicious and really cheap.

Bye for now!