Night Train

We returned to Chiang Mai after our respite.  We were refreshed but the students were exhausted from their Homestay experience.  We (and they) had only one more full day in Chiang Mai before a whirlwind of activity started.  Tuesday afternoon we boarded our trusty red taxis for our trip to the train station.  We had purchased our tickets earlier so our only challenge was to find the correct train for our trip to Bangkok.

We arrived in Bangkok early on Wednesday morning and proceeded to our hotel. We were expected and had a nive buffet breakfast and proceeded to our rooms. Yuck! The carpet is grossly stained, the internet rarely works in our room and when I call the front desk to ask anything in English they hang up on me. Oh well - I can put up with anything for a couple of weeks. At least it is air conditioned and I can get coffee in the morning. Our whirlwind continued with a 4:30 AM departure to the airport for our flight to Siem Reap. Boy - did we blow it. I had trouble sleeping - looked at my watch at 3:30 and closed my eyes for just a second. I opened my eyes and looked at the watch to discover that it was 4:38. We slept through the alarm. I have never seen Carol move any faster than she did when I woke her up and told her we were late. We made it downstairs in a record 8 minutes. We weren't the last to arrive but we did not miss it by much. Off to the airport and three packed days in Cambodia