Bangkok/Hawaii

After losing in the quarterfinals, we decided that we didn't want to stay in Korat anymore, and have a day or two in Bangkok, and do some sightseeing. After our match, the next morning, we all took a 3 hour bus to Bangkok, checked into our hotel, slept, and the next day started our excursion day.
Our day started at our 6 am wake up call, breakfast, left the hotel by 7:15, and went into our hired van with a driver and drove out to the floating markets......Unbelievable experience! If you can see in the pics, we rode on boats, and went shopping on actual floating markets. Pretty unreal experience! After the floating markets we headed out to the Kings Palace, where if you were wearing a tank top or shorts, you had to rent out long skirts for the girls and pants for the boys. Palace was filled with lots of gold!......we also saw the emerald buddha. After the palace, we headed out to a market that was only open on the weekends, and did the rest of our shopping there. The day did not end there though, after the markets, went back to the hotel, had dinner, and tried to go out, but because it was election weekend, not a lot of "bar" type places were open. But we eventually found one, had a couple of drinks, talked, hung out, went back to the hotel at about 1:30pm, took a shower, packed, and headed straight to the airport. Our flight was at 6 am, with a 6 hour layover in Tokyo airport, and about a 6 and a half hour plane ride to Hawaii.
Yes.....we made it to Hawaii, we got in at about 8 am, had a cake tasting appointment at 12, and another one at 4 ( who never showed up), and now we are all in the hotel, and the gang is knocked out! I myself, am getting there. After this blog, gonna take a nap. Enjoy the pics!