Friday, February 5, 2010

November 20, 2009 Flying to Bangkok


November 20, 2009 Flying to Bangkok
We woke up this morning in plenty of time in order to pack and make the Airport to catch our flight to Bangkok which did not depart until 3:00pm that afternoon. We had a check out time of 10:00 am from the house but we didn’t take it too seriously as usually the checkout times were not enforced. Today was the exception, the cleaners started pounding on the door by 9:30 and we were not ready. We scrambled to get packed up and out of the door but we made them wait until 11am or so before we had things organized enough to pack the van. Tempers were short and but all the children managed to make it out alive and we didn’t even forget anything.
We drove into Christchurch and decided to send off a handful of Christmas cards and letters and buy a backup hard drive to my computer in the event something horribly wrong happened to the laptop on we would lose all our pictures which by now number in the thousands. Mission accomplished.
We are in for a hectic 24 hours. We first fly to Sydney from Christchurch which is a 3 hour flight over the Tasman Sea. We have a 1 hour lay over and gain two hours. We then depart from Sydney and fly to Bangkok which is a 7 ½ hour flight and gain another 3 hours. We are now only 14 hours ahead of Calgary. We land in Bangkok at midnight local time but it would be 6 oclock in the morning New Zealand time. Our itinerary is such that we begin our first tour at 6:30 in the morning local time. So after travelling from the Airport and checking into our hotel – Surkumvit Xclusive—5 star—and get everyone settled in it would be about 2 am. We told everyone to sleep for 3 hours and then meet in the lobby, have a quick breakfast and then meet our tour guide and the bus.

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