Adventures

Today I woke up from the first night sleeping in my room and didn't feel so good. So I got my stuff and walked outside to my mom's little guest room that she stayed the night in. I took a shower in there, and was talking to my mom when I laid down and fell asleep for two hours. After my little nap, I was feeling a little bit better, so I went back in and sat in the kitchen with some people, talking about life and things like that. The first question that was asked was if any of us had a significant other, I laughed when they asked me. Then my mom got her stuff situated and decided she needed to go back to the hotel room. We found Honda, who is on staff and speaks Thai, and he called a cab and made sure they knew where to take my mom.

Kayla came downstairs and asked if anyone wanted to go to Ikea, which I was pumped about because I knew I needed to go and get some things to organize my stuff with. So five girls, Me, Karleen, Kayla, Gillian, and Izeldi started walking. We have to walk all the way out of our neighbor and to the main highway to get a taxi. And it is a really short drive to the Mega Bangna, which is the mall where Ikea is. We got there and went to Big C, which is like a Walmart to get fruit and some water, then we went into Ikea.It was a pretty successful trip, we found everything that we needed! It was after we left Ikea was when the real adventure started. Karleen realized she had left her purse in Ikea, so her and Gillian went back inside to find it and Izeldi, Kayla and I took the cab home, we had the address and everything and he said he knew exactly where to go, but clearly that was a lie. We got so lost, he started driving near downtown and we were all like "Umm this is not right at all". Every minute, we were hoping he was going to make a turn and we would be right where we needed to be. Finally he pulls over, I show him the address which also had Honda's number on it. The driver called Honda, who told him exactly where to go, thank God. Izeldi, Kayla and I couldn't help but laugh, of course this would happen to us and none of us had Thai cell phones so we couldn't call anyone. The driver started backing up and he said he needed to make a u-turn and cross four lanes of oncoming traffic all going well over 100 miles per hour. Kayla couldn't look out her window because she was too scared but Izeldi and I were looking and laughing so hard at our possible fate. But good news, we made it across to the other side safely, and got back to the house in just a few minutes. Kayla had to direct him through the neighborhood and she was pointing the way when we remember that to Thai people, pointing is rude, so we broke out in laughter again, trying to show him the way without pointing. Finally we got home and told everyone the story while still laughing. It was scary, but so funny.