Spirits are high, but Brandon did have to go out of his way to meet up with the rest of the group. No worries, though… my final destination is Thailand!!!
Meet the cast:
Brandon
Craig
Jim
Kate
Shelli
We’re all teachers in need of a break.
As we left the subway station, we implemented a 3-strike shun system to keep troublemakers at bay. Craig hit his limit 15-minutes into the subway ride (still in Seoul). Jim self-imposed his shun after looking into the wrong pocket of Shelli’s suitcase. Kate saw lots of shiny things.
The flight was long and Craig and I sat together in a part of the plan infested with children. Craig got a perfectionist child seated next to him. She was playing with a small Simpsons hand towel and had to continually adjust it until it was centered in her pull down cup holder. Lots of screaming and restless movement throughout the rest of our section!!! At one point, a child just started screaming and instinctively Craig and I put our headphones in simultaneously. Also, apparently Thai airlines doesn’t mind if you freely roam about the cabin… even if you don’t have to just go to the bathroom or are getting something out of the overhead bin. I soon fell asleep only to be jarred awake when the beverage cart ran over my foot.
The dinner of curry and rice was one of the best airline meals I’d ever had.
I fell asleep again and when I woke up again, the girl sitting next to Craig had turned into a woman. I tried to fall asleep again, but couldn’t sleep very well with the painful and traumatic memory of being run over by the beverage cart fresh in my mind and the fear of it happening again. I passed the remaining dark hour of the flight (an overnight flight thankfully means light’s out) by playing Sudoku on my iPod Touch.
As we were preparing to land, I looked over and noticed that the woman next to Craig had turned into a young teenage boy. Either this airline has a liberal policy about staying in your assigned seat or we were dealing with a shape-shifter. Also, the Christmas music they were playing was a nice mix that consisted mostly of Michael Buble’s Let It Snow Christmas album. Just during landing, 3 out of the 4 songs played were from this 6 song album.
Apparently, the rest of the group flew in peace and quiet in the “adults only” section of the plane. Jealous!!!
When the hotel sent a car to pick us up at the airport (we did get in at 1:30am), I got a lesson on riding in this country. Don’t get in on the front right side unless you’re about to drive.
We got to the hotel to find the guys were going to be occupying the pink room.
This only made Jim more uncomfortable about having to share a bed with me and he used a towel rather than sleeping under the comforter. It was a decision he would regret by morning what with the air conditioning going full blast.