Chiang Mai Pen Rai- DAY 1

So we made it safely! I have to apologize to everyone for not keeping up with the daily blog promise while we're here! I plan to from here on out, promise. (: The trip has just been so amazing and so action-packed that I haven't had the time! Let's start from day one.

DAY 1- Crazy Airports & Beer Greetings

Surprisingly, the flight over flew by so quickly! (Pun totally intended). We traveled for around 24 hours before arrived in Chiang Mai. On the way, we enjoyed seeing the different airports in Taipei and Bangkok. Taipei was definitely the most interesting. HELLO KITTY EVERYWHERE.
I realized how static and blah our airport in Seattle is after experiencing airports in Asia. While on our layover in Taipei we decided to exchange some money and try out a couple of the things that stood out to us as foreign. We sampled some foods and bought some drinks from the crazy looking vending machines. One tasted like some sort of melon and was entirely too sweet (as many of the things here are, including orange juice.) Branon got something that tasted a lot like root beer, and it was delicious unlike the first one.




We weren't so lucky when it came to our connect flight from Taipei to Bangkok. Being the brilliant two we are, we booked the connecting flight merely 1 hour away from our flight in to Bangkok. One would think you get off one flight and hop on the next, yeah? Nope. We hadn't considered the time it would take to run through the foreign airport, and I mean literally RUN.... make it through Customs and Immigration...oh and wait over 20 minutes for our luggage at the return, and get through the line to re-check it for the next flight. We were about 7 minutes away from making our connect flight, so we were told we needed to re-book it. It wasn't too bad considering we got an amazing lounge full of free snacks and drinks!  The flight from Bangkok to Chiang Mai seemed like we were up in the air, and back down within a matter of minutes when it really took just about an hour and a half.


Kendall met us at the airport, and Brenna, don't you worry... I hugged and kissed her for you as requested. We took a taxi back to her dad's humble abode in Suan Pailom (which means Bamboo Park), where we'd be staying for the next month. He greeted us with the must-knows about Thailand, and a lovely beer sampling which included Chang, Leo (Kendall's favorite), and Singha (my favorite!) To adjust to the time change we attempted to stay up late. We adjusted pretty darn well to the if you ask me! Day one, we already felt a connection with Thailand.