Bangkok day 1

We have arrived in southeast Asia! Our home for the next number of months :) well the weather is much warmer than England that's for sure. We enjoyed our last few days in London seeing the sights and meeting new people. 

      We were unaware of the intense political situation of unrest happening right now in Bangkok. There are many protests and attacks have been taking lives such as people being gunned down by snipers as well as bombs going off. We only plan to stay another couple days and then we'll be headed north!

      There's four of us now and the fifth will join us later tonight. It's wonderful how cheap it is to eat and stay! We even splurged and got incredible one hour Thai massages which left us feeling as light as air. We ate pat Thai and drank some tasty fruit milkshakes. Hunter bought a cooked scorpion and we all tried a little bit. And by little bit I mean a small but of a crispy leg and luckily all it tasted like was an overcooked chip. It is a little confusing to convert as one U.S dollar is about 30 Thai baht or one UK pound is around 50 Thai baht. So we've been doing plenty of multiplying! Guess all those years of math came in handy. ;)

     The streets near Khao San Road are full of like minded backpackers shopping for hareems (cool popular Thai pants, I bought some!) and other clothes as well as cheap food. We're all so excited for this journey and plan to start it off properly by getting tattoos at Wat Bang Phra in the morning as a group. Pictures to come! Love and peace to all :)

P.S- the first Thai words Ive learned. Help= choo-ay doo-ay. Hello= sah-wat-dee. Thank you= korp kun.