่นรืไำืส หสรนำ รน่อห้ฟรไย

ya that doesn't say anything, but this keyboard is Thai capable and I couldn't resist a bit of key smashing in the Thai option. Looks pretty cool though, I know, sorry to disappoint everyone but I've not exactly picked up Thai yet. I'm Hoping it doesn't say something increadably offending cause there are lot of Thais around that can probably see it.
So I got to Bangkok around 11:00 pm 2 nights ago and it took us about 4 hours to get to the road with all the hostels on it Khao San road. We knew we were supposed to take the A2 bus into town and the first bus that pulled up had a lot of funky looking things like this ากสร หืรสแอำ on it so I asked the driver if it was the A2 and he nodded enthusiastically and waved us on. Unfortunately for us the bus was not the A2 it was the bus that took us about 30 minutes south (the opposite direction from the city) to the major souther bus depot from which luckily a bus still ran into the city. We got there around midnight and I asked a police officer when the bus to the city came and he said around 1. Thinking we might try a cap Tom and I walked across the road to a taxi rank and asked the fare into the city, its about 400 Baht (1 dollar is about 37 Baht) so that was more than we wanted to pay so we say and waited for the bus which arrived right on time and hour later at 1 o'clock and we got on. After sitting on the bus in the station for about 20 minutes (and noticing that the bus driver had fallen asleep) I asked the lady behind us if it was the right bus and she said yes, a couple minutes later I asked her when it left and she laughed and said not until 2. fed up with waiting we took the cab that ended up being 450 baht cause there is a toll road. We thought we'd be ok though now cause the taxi rank guy seemed to know exactly where we wanted to go, The Bella Bella guest house on Khao San Road and he told the taxi driver (in Thai) what seemed at the time like complicated but good directions. Khao San road is supposed to be the backpacker heart of Bangkok famous for its numerous open air markets, street food vendors, night clubs and guest houses. What we're learning is that the whole area around Khao San looks about the same and the many winding and confusing streets crossing Khao San could be easily confused to first time travelers as Khao San. And indeed the road that we were dropped on did have its share of street vendors and dreadlocked backpackers, but it was hardly the thumping heart of activity that we expected at 2:30 am on a sunday night. Obviously we had a pretty hard time finding the Bella Bella on the wrong road and settled for a shady as Guest House and leaving the figuring out where the hell we are part for the next morning. And we did figure it out, we were only a couple of streets over from Khao San and we stayed there the next nice in a nicer guest house and booked stuff to do until about the 4th of feb. We're headed to Chaing Mai tonight on an overnight bus to do some trecking in the north. Its about a 14 hour bus ride from bangkok and we're hopefully getting picked up at the bus station by our trecking guide. We get to ride elephants into the jungle and stay with one of Thailand's most famous hill tribe people the first night. The long neck people are all over the national geographic pages, you know the ones where the women where massive golden rings around their necks that stretches them and makes them frightfully long. Anway its back to bangkok after that to catch a bus down to Ko Pah-ngan (pronounced Ko-Pan-yang) for some beach relaxation. Pah-ngan is famous for its full moon parties which we'll catch on the 2nd of february. After that we don't know but I think we'll head to Ko Toa for some diving and then back to bangkok for some market and temple tours, and a but of shopping at the open air markets. Sorry no pictures yet, first of all cause I havn't taken any yet (I'm not sure what the etiquette is for photos but I've not seen anyone taking many of the buildings and stuff so I want to check that out. Also we've stored more of out stuff so we don't have a lot on the busses up north, apparently they can be pretty sketchy and attendants sometimes take things out of the bags and repack them while there underneath at stops in the middle of the night. BUT, as soon as I'm back from Chaing Mai I will have lots of pictures to show you so that will only be 5 days or so. Until then I don't think I'll have much internet access to don't worry if I go a couple days from now without updating. Miss you guys. Thailand is awesome.