THAILAND

Sawadee Ka (Hello in Thai)

I arrived last Wednesday in the "land of smiles" where I eventually met up with 3 friends from home (Glenwood Springs) and another girl from Colorado. We spent 2 nights in the dirty and over populated city of Bangkok, all trying to adapt ourselves to the strang and new world that we had just entered.
Upon my arrival I was lucky enough to go to a friend of Theresa's and sleep for a bit while I waited for the others to arrive. They took me out for my first "ture" Thai meal. They showed me the streets around where they lived. I took in the city smell, noise and heat that was sudden change from my Colorado setting (Thanks Jon and Tina for everything).
After two nights in Bangkok the five Coloradoians (Not sure if that's how you spell it, but that's how I say it) took a bus to the Sex capital of the world, Pattaya. It's where dirty, old, rich white men go for some pleasure. I was more in shock about this city than anything. The way that the women were flonting themselves at the old guys in order to make some money made me sick. Luckly we were only there for one night and less that 24 hours.
After catching a bus off the side of the road (don't know how we even found the bus stop) and changing to another bus where we almost all died of heat (there was NO AC on this bus and we were basically in a sauna for the next few hours sweating our brains out) and then catching a ride in the back of some guys truck (actually that's how the Taxis work around here) we some how managed to get to a small island off the coast of south eastern part of Thailand called Koh Chang. This island is filled with white sand beaches, an amazing jungle, the best Thai food ever, friendly people, and other crazy backpackers.
After some adventues sea kyaking today and some burnt legs, we decided that this places is pretty amazing and we plan to spend the next two nights here before crossing the border into Cambodia....
More adventures to come.

(Sorry about the spelling errors, we all know I'm not known for my spelling ability and I can't figure out spell check because it's all in Thai, oh well.)