One Night in Bangkok...so far

When we last met our heroine, she was sitting in an aiport lounge, enjoying a nice morning drink...

Given the mileage to my destination, I made much better time than on my last trip. It was still a long day though - a little over 13 hours on my first flight, Washington to Tokyo, then about 3 hours at Tokyo Narita airport, followed up by another 5 hours on a plane, give or take. The time-space continuum has left me feeling a bit warped, as I woke up in DC on Friday morning and when I went to bed that night, it was Saturday in Bangkok. That's two whole days of very little productivity! You know how much work I could have gotten done?

The flights themselves were pretty uneventful, aside from the fact that in both cases I had way more foot room than I knew what to do with and the flight attendants were practically throwing alcohol at me the whole time. Yes, traveling is business class is all it is cracked up to be. They really do hand out champagne before you've even had a chance to buckle your seat belt and stow your baggage for the take-off. And I'm never one to pass up a free glass of bubbly, plus it would be kind of rude, don't you think?

The comfortable seats - including those on the second flight, which were those pod ones that laid out completely flat - were a big factor in me getting a few hours of sleep on each flight. First flight I turned the tv on for a few minutes, but otherwise spent my waking time reading and knitting a bit. I finished off the book I was reading, plus read a whole Sookie Stackhouse book - my latest guilty pleasure. On the second flight, the seats had bigger tv screens, and a selection of movies you could start at anytime. I saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine (lots of delicious men in that...) and Star Trek. They were both, as my boss pointed out, the appropriate geeky choices. Not much else to say about the flights - oh, except that Jessica Simpson was on the second one.

Now I'm settled in to my hotel, a Hilton. I took it easy today, slept in a bit before going to get a late breakfast in the executive lounge. That was followed by a nap, and some relaxing in my room. I took a little walk outside, but with the muggy-ness and my unfamiliarity with the area, I only made it around the block. I then went back to the lounge for a cup, no, a pot of tea, and some snacks, and followed that up with a massage at the spa. It was very nice and indulgent, and I'll probably be back there before I leave here. Dinner was at one of the hotel restaurants, a buffet style that served Thai and International cuisine - tonight it appeared it was Indian, and as most of the other stuff had fish, that was what I had. Plus desert of course - they did have a good assortment of ice cream.

So, now you are all caught up on my time so far in Bangkok! It's very exciting, isn't it?