We made it to Thailand!!!

We arrived in Thailand with a flawless trip! I guess we were expecting the worse and were pleasantly surprised. We had the entire row to ourselves so I sprawled out and slept the entire 12 hours... so did Robert ... except when he was playing the in-flight trivia game and beat everyone :) The flight in was beautiful. The landscape is thousands of acres of rice fields with sporadic extravagant Buddhist temples.  We took the air train (much nicer transportation than NYC)  to our hotel. Our room is on the top floor (21st floor) and overlooks all of Bangkok. We are right next to an elementary school so I feel right at home:) I can hear the kids singing and chanting all day. I seriously could look out this window for days.. there is so much going on. Our room is basic but nice and clean. We have 3 American channels on our TV but I think I prefer the Thai channels.. they are hilarious. We spent the first day sleeping, unpacking, and eating! The food is… well maybe I just haven’t ordered the right thing yet?!?! (I hope) It seems all the fish still have the eyes,  the chicken still has the skin and everything else is coated in a film of slim. The breakfast has a few more American options so I will survive J We worked out this morning.. Robert is determined on getting in shape for the iron man. There is a pool on the top floor along with a nice work out facility. We are noticing how large we are in comparison to Thai people. The pool is very shallow on one side and gets deeper on the other side. I laughed when Robert got in because the water went up to his shin J I must have created bad karma cause when I got on the bike I skinned my knee because my legs were too long. Robert went into work today. He says  the hospital is really nice. It is about 2 miles away from the hotel so he takes a tro-tro (a colorful four wheeler????)  Everything is SOOOO cheap. Robert came home for lunch so we went to the local supermarket to stock up on H2O and Diet Pepsi (equally important J). Walking through grocery stores in foreign countries is one of my favorite things to do (very interesting). I just spent the last hour talking to the front desk (everyone in Thailand speaks decent English and most of the signs are in English) about all the things we should do while we are here… I am so excited. Now I just need to convenience Robert to play hooky from work J