Our Trip To Thailand

We left Saturday, December 13th and went to Hong Kong to fly on Royal Jordanian Airlines. Royal Jordanian Airlines is not in America and I didn't even know it existed, but it was the cheapest airline to Bangkok so we checked it out a little bit and booked the flight for $218 per person for Me, Coree, Rachel and Jonny round trip. Nikki and Vika's tickets were $180 each. It was only a two and a half hour flight from Hong Kong. Royal Jordanian made us feel like royalty. The seats were roomy, they fed us this incredible dinner and showed us a movie. It was a great way to start. We thought that it would be like Southwest Airlines where they just try to move people as fast as possible, but it wasn't at all.

We got to Bangkok at about 10:30 pm. The airport was beyond huge. It's the biggest airport in Asia which says a lot because the Hong Kong airport is the biggest airport I've ever seen. Two vans picked us up; one for our family and one for the Reddens. The Reddens are a family that we work with and they have triplet boys who are Jonny's age and they have a daughter who is Nikki's age.

We spent the night in a hotel near the airport and two vans picked us up again to take us out to Koh Chang Island. Koh Chang is about a 5 hour ride southeast of Bangkok. After we exchanged our money, we felt like we were rich because we had so much Baht, but the exchange rate is about 33 to 1 so this isn't a lot of money it's just a lot of bills.

Soon after we left the initial excitement vanished and Vika had this look on her face.